The Aarey authority plans to hand over its 51-year-old hospital to the BMC, to provide medical services to residents in the vicinity. However, it has been learnt that Aarey had offered the hospital earlier as well to BMC, but as their officials did not want to pay for repairs of the building and other facilities, it didn’t work out then. 

mid-day had reported in October 2022 that the hospital was in a dilapidated condition and had become a dispensary. There is an OPD which runs from 8 am to 2 pm. There is only one doctor and one nurse. According to the staff, no patient has been admitted to the hospital that was opened in 1971, for the past eight to 10 years.