BMC-run health facilities are frequently criticised for poor hygiene; and that criticism is valid. Now though, things seem to be changing. The city’s new additional municipal commissioner (health) has made more than a hundred visits to various BMC health facilities in two months. One eyewitness said in a report that he had seen sanitation work being done even at midnight.

Earlier, this edit column had highlighted the efficacy of surprise checks undertaken by the top official.