The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to appoint a contractor following the suggestions made by the health committee chairman Amey Ghole to ensure that patients receive treatment even after 4 pm at 15 municipal dispensaries across the city. Patients will be treated from 4 pm to 11 pm through the contractor instead of earlier timings from 9 am to 4 pm. The civic body will be spending Rs 2.9 crore for the appointment of the contractor for two years.

In order to get affordable medical treatment for the poor patients, the BMC's Public Health Department has 168 clinics/dispensaries running in different parts of Mumbai. Patients are treated in these clinics between 9 am to 4 pm but the chairman of the health committee had raised worry that citizens who go to offices cannot be treated and also cannot afford to get treatment at a private clinic during 9 am to 4 pm and thus an extension of time was needed.