A couple of days back a close friend of mine had chest pain at night. She stays in Marol Village which is mainly inhabited by East Indians and is very close to SevenHills hospital. We did not even think of taking her to SevenHills because of its reputation of being expensive. Instead we took her to Mukund Hospital which is also close by. Unfortunately there was no vacant ICU bed there and we decided to take her to Holy Spirit hospital which is also in Andheri (E). But my friend passed away in the auto and was declared dead on arrival at Holy Spirit. I write this letter out of anguish.
I lost a friend because she could not get timely treatment. For how long will SevenHills and the BMC continue their legal tussle? It is 2 years since the hospital started. Do not both the parties want to settle the issue and give the people of this area a badly needed facility of a good, reasonably priced hospital? Why is a public need being politicised?