No BMC registration, Doctor booked for running private hospital

Mumbai: A doctor cum owner of a private hospital in Kandivali, Maharashtra has been recently booked for allegedly running the hospital for a year without a valid license from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). 

During a surprise inspection at the hospital, BMC inspector Ganesh Kadam responsible for evaluating various establishments including hotels, hospitals, and crematoriums within R/South Ward inspected the hospital and found that it was functioning without a licence violating BMC regulations. 

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As per a TOI news report, the inspection took place on June 13 when Kadam visited the hospital that has been running for a year and asked the doctor to show the license of the hospital to prove that the hospital was registered under the corporation. In response, the doctor informed him that he had not registered the hospital with the BMC. 

After the inspection was completed, Kadam submitted a copy of his inspection report to Sahayak Hospital and gave the doctor time to register the hospital. However, the hospital was still not registered even after two months of the inspection. 

On August 6, Kadam registered a case under the Bombay Nursing Homes Registration Act, 1949 against the doctor. He has been booked and no arrest has been made yet. An investigation is underway. 

Bombay Nursing Homes Registration Act, 1949 provide for the registration and inspection of nursing Homes in the Province of Bombay and certain purposes Connected therewith. According to the Act, every hospital and nursing home in the city must be registered with the BMC. 

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that in its continuous battle to eradicate quackery in Telangana, several quacks pretending to be MBBS doctors were found administering medicines to people at illegal clinics putting their lives at risk. 

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