Trustees of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet and the Managing Committee of the Parsi Lying-In Hospital (PLIH), which has been defunct for the past 35 years, have shot down a suggestion to hand over the hospital premises to Tata Memorial Hospital. A community member and retired Naval officer Commodore (Cdr) Medioma Bhada had made the suggestion so that the hospital could be revived as one of the centres of TMH. The managing committee, while striking down the suggestion, said that it has received two to three proposals which have potential. Noshir Dadrawala, a member of the managing committee, stated that it is neither the right move nor in the best interest of the community.

Cdr Bhada had written to the BPP trustee about the matter, stating that the appropriate authority in the government or the Indian Medical Council could consider acquiring this redundant healthcare facility on mutually acceptable terms. “A hospital that has been lying defunct for more than three decades is essentially criminal, especially at a time when Mumbai’s medical infrastructure is stretched to the hilt.