After civic-run MT Agarwal hospital in Mulund, it is now VN Desai hospital in Santacruz East, where the wrongdoings of M/s Jeevan Jyot Charitable Trust have come to light. The trust was given the contract by the BMC to hire and deploy doctors with MD and MBBS degrees to run the ICUs of BMC-run peripheral hospitals, but instead, they hired non-allopathy doctors, who were not registered with the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) and were handling the ICUs and VN Desai hospital administration had not only pulled them up for their shoddy work, but former doctors attached to the hospital said the trust was also penalised for defaulting the contract.

Five years ago, mid-day, in ‘Outsourcing ICUs in peripheral hospitals is waste of public money, say doctors’ (May 30, 2018), was the first to raise concerns about outsourcing such work. Recently, the Metropolitan Magistrate Court, taking cognisance of a private complaint filed by one Goldy Sharma, directed the Mulund police to register an FIR against the trustees of the trust, which included the murder charge. mid-day in ‘Murder case to be registered against 6 trustees of charitable trust’ (May 30), had highlighted the same.