Patients running from one building to another for laboratory tests at KEM Hospital will soon be a thing of the past as the hospital is set to construct a new 16-floor building. This new building will consolidate all the scattered diagnostic facilities under one roof. It will also feature a demonstration room, lecture hall, visitor room, theatre, and medical and general stores.

Tertiary care hospitals and medical colleges like KEM cater to a large number of patients daily in their Outdoor and Indoor Departments.  A senior doctor from the hospital said, “Not only do patients from Mumbai rely on our services, but people from other districts and states also come here for the treatment of serious diseases. With the hospital’s vast premises and scattered diagnostic departments, it becomes hectic for patients and their relatives to move for sample collection and report retrieval. The new building will serve as a centralized lab, housing the Microbiology, Pathology, and Biochemistry departments, as well as the blood bank.”