As the number of COVID-19 cases begins to drop in the city, the civic body will now start focussing on utilising the medical equipment that isn't being used. However, apart from basic equipment at COVID Care Centres that were recently shut down, there are around 30 low-cost ventilators at SevenHills Hospital that aren't fit for use due to poor quality. But the additional municipal commissioner insists that these ventilators are useful.

'No response from BMC'

Leader of opposition and Congress corporator Ravi Raja had written to the civic body on June 28 alleging that the ventilators had been purchased at double the cost. "The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) purchased 30 AgVa ventilators at R3 lakh each and none of them are being used. I have not received any response from the administration. I had even demanded an inquiry over such a tragic waste of funds for sub-standard equipment," said Raja.