The Maharashtra Human Rights Commission (MHRC) has initiated suo-motu proceedings against the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) more than a week after mid-day revealed that patients were spending Rs 3,000 for a CT scan at private facilities due to a lack of information about the tie-up between the civic-run Nair hospital, state-run JJ hospital and NM Medical Centre.

This newspaper shed light on the issue on June 23 in its report ‘Nair patients forced to go to private centres for CT scan’.