The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) has opposed the Thane civic body's move to set up a cancer treatment facility at the Global Covid Hospital in the city, saying it must first expand the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital at Kalwa where 18 patients died in a 24-hour period last month, reported news agency PTI.

Avinash Jadhav, Thane-Palghar chief of the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), told reporters that the load on the Kalwa hospital has increased manifold and patients there are facing untold miseries due to its poor infrastructure, reported PTI.