All BMC-run hospitals are prepared to tackle emergency situations, if any, during Ganpati festival and have reserved 2 to 5 beds to treat such patients, as per the chief medical superintendent’s direction. Doctors at peripheral hospitals have been asked to remain on standby too. 

This year, Ganpati festival will be celebrated in its full glory after a gap of two years, since the Covid-19 hit in 2020. However, as several cases of injury and drowning are generally reported during the procession or immersion, Chief Medical Superintendent Vidya Thakur has issued an order for all peripheral hospitals run by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.