To improve patient care, the public health department of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has announced a series of upgrades to be implemented across all civic-run hospitals in Mumbai by the end of this year. The initiative includes the construction of dedicated toilet facilities for relatives of admitted patients to ensure better hygiene and dignity for caregivers who spend long hours attending to patients, the introduction of a centralised digital dashboard displaying real-time bed availability across all civic hospitals to streamline patient admissions and reduce the time spent by families searching for vacant beds, particularly during emergencies or peak seasons, and the expansion of pipeline gas systems to all peripheral hospitals.

Toilets for kin