Days after a 21-year-old allegedly died by drowning in a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) swimming pool, the civic body is yet to appoint a single doctor at any of its six pools. This, despite a circular for the appointment of at least two doctors at every pool having been issued last year in the wake of a similar incident.

Kanchan Rode’s father said there was no doctor or ambulance at the Ghatkopar civic swimming pool and it took 20 minutes to find a vehicle to take her to a hospital