Doctors from Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation-run (BMC) hospitals will, for the first time, come knocking on the doors of senior citizens for medical diagnoses. If everything goes as per plan, doctors and nurses from nearby BMC-run peripheral hospitals and dispensaries will visit senior citizens who find it difficult to seek out diagnosis and pathological tests owing to physical limitations.

Doctors and nurses, however, are not too enthused by the plan, saying this would put further pressure on the already short-staffed civic-run hospitals and dispensaries. In 2012, a proposal to this effect was floated by Dr Saeeda Khan, corporator, L ward, in the public health committee. It was approved last week.