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Mumbai rains: Heavy rain floods KEM Hospital, raises concern over infrastructure
Updated On: 27 May, 2025 08:31 AM IST | Mumbai | Ritika Gondhalekar
Parel hospital cites low-lying Hindmata drainage failure while patients and staff cope with ankle-deep water. While medical services and emergency care remained uninterrupted, many patients were forced to sit or wait in waterlogged passages, raising serious concerns over hospital infrastructure and disaster preparedness amid heavy Mumbai rains
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Flooded passageway inside hospital; Pipe from where water was pumped out. Pics/By Special Arrangement
The unseasonal and excessively heavy rains on Monday not just caused havoc on the roads and railway tracks but also flooded the King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital, causing major inconvenience to hundreds of patients and visitors. While medical services and emergency care remained uninterrupted, many patients were forced to sit or wait in waterlogged passages, raising serious concerns over hospital infrastructure and disaster preparedness.
OPD and paediatric ICU (PICU) wards faced waterlogging. However, no patients from the PICU had to be relocated, and all children were well taken care of by the staff. “As soon as we realised that the water was entering inside, we alerted all the parents and asked them not to panic. We immediately asked our cleaning staff to manually drain the water out, and no damage to life or property was seen,” said Suhana Shaikh, a nurse from the hospital.
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