If suffering from a kidney ailment wasn’t a bad-enough burden to bear, patients being treated at the NMMC-run First Referral Unit hospital (FRUH) in Navi Mumbai, are forced to endure a torturous wait each time they visit the hospital for dialysis since the past few months.

The hospital currently has only one technician, who has been tasked with operating their centre’s eight dialysis machines, and the staff crunch is reportedly taking a huge toll on its patients. Despite knowing that the centre is ill staffed, NMMC has not initiated any recruitment process to employ additional technicians in the last two months.