Most departments in the hospital remain locked, the roof is crumbling and the fire extinguishers are non-functional, raising questions on the safety of patients

A central government employee’s fight to restore the dilapidated Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) hospital in Worli has finally borne fruit. Dinanath Kumar Paswan, the complainant who works with NEERI, who tried to get the state government to take remedial measures, has got a response from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), which he wrote to in September 2016, when everything else failed.