Amid the fast-spreading COVID-19 pandemic, a Saat Rasta resident has accused the civic body of mismanagement. Eight days after his father died at BYL Nair Hospital, Umesh Lanjekar received a call from the BMC, inquiring about his health. Lanjekar has cited this and his struggle to get his father treated as the civic body's failure.

By now, half of the city's population has or knows someone who has struggled because of lack of beds for COVID-19 and other patients. Lanjekar's father, Balkrishna Lanjekar, 87, was suffering from loose motions and after trying at several private hospitals, he was admitted to Nair hospital.