Following mid-day’s expose on the questionable services provided by contractual doctors of Jeevan Jyot Charitable Trust to the civic-run VN Desai Hospital, the hospital initiated an inquiry and discontinued its services.

The hospital officials also wrote to the Deputy Municipal Commissioner of health seeking action (cancellation of registration) against two doctors - one who went out to celebrate a birthday, the other disappeared -  who left patients in ICU at the mercy of God. mid-day had reported on September 20, 2022 that Dr Chetan Rathod and Dr Mandar Muley, provided by Jeevan Jyot Charitable Trust to VN Desai Municipal General Hospital, left seven ICU patients to their fate for hours on the night of September 16. It was alleged that one doctor went to Dr R.N Cooper Hospital to celebrate a birthday and the other disappeared.