The new Bhagwati Hospital in Borivli, which was earlier expected to open by December after the decision to drop the (Public-Private Partnership) PPP model, has now entered its final stage of readiness. However, the hospital will not begin operations this month as planned. 

Speciality services are slated to partially begin by the end of January, once procurement of medical equipment and installation of furniture is completed. From next month, all OPD services, along with psychiatry, dermatology, venereology and general medicine departments — covering hypertension, pneumonia, diabetes and more — will become operational. Surgical services such as orthopaedics, ophthalmology, ENT, gynaecology and the burn unit will begin by mid-2026.