The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has a New Year's gift for Mumbaikars. The civic-run Nair Hospital, which sees around 1,000 footfalls every day, will start the long-pending Health Information Management System (HIMS) by December 31.

Soon, patients at Nair Hospital will get unique health cards (under the HIMS), which will hold a specific number that will help doctors/ hospitals get information about them. On feeding this number into their data, they will get the patient's personal details, health history and real-time health records including medical records of examinations. The BMC will outsource jobs of as many as 66 operating personnel to update the records online.