Nimse, Khandare to visit hospital over equipment row

NASHIK: The chairman of the standing committee of Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) Uddhav Nimse on Friday said that he, along with municipal commissioner Sanjay Khandare, will visit Bytco Hospital to verify the new equipment allegedly lying unused in the store room of the hospital.
The proposal to purchase essential equipment and machineries amounting to Rs 20 lakh for all the hospitals of NMC in the city was tabled on Friday at the meeting of the standing committee of NMC.A panel member from Shiv Sena, Suryakant Lavate, objected to the proposal to purchase equipment and machineries for hospitals saying that new equipment were lying idle in the storage rooms of Bytco Hospital of NMC and urged the chairman to verify those.
Standing committee member from the Congress party, Dinkar Patil, said the NMC hospital in Gangapur village has not been functioning since many months. Doctors come for one or two hours only.
Replying to Patil’s objection, NMC’s health officer D B Patil said that the hospital in Gangapur has started functioning regularly since the last couple of weeks. Two medical officers are performing their duties in the hospital. He added that two more nurses have been recruited there.
Shiv Sena’s Suryakant Lavate objected to the proposal to buy machineries worth Rs 20 lakh, saying that new equipments were lying idle in Bytco Hospital