The family of a 50-year-old civic employee, who tested positive for COVID-19, had to run from pillar to post to get a bed at a BMC hospital. Despite having served as a cook in a corporation hospital for 30 years, the Mulund-based family had to get him hospitalised in a private hospital in Navi Mumbai at high cost.

"My dad has given 30 years to the BMC, feeding patients in the hospital. But we had to shift him to a private hospital in Navi Mumbai. Is this how frontline warriors are treated?" his son asked.