Cancer patients will soon have another place in the city to seek treatment or palliative care at the civic body's subsidised rates. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is set to construct a 17-storey multi-speciality hospital near Kamathipura with three dedicated floors for cancer palliative care. It can accommodate 54 patients.

The new hospital will come up behind the existing Eye Hospital over an area measuring 2,220 sq m. Earlier, there was a building as an extension of the Eye Hospital in a dilapidated condition and was demolished around five years ago. "The hospital will be run under a private-public partnership and it is the first civic hospital which will offer palliative care to cancer patients," said Padmaja Keskar, executive health officer of BMC.