Eleven state and civic-run hospitals across Mumbai have been short- listed to conduct medical examination on sexual assault survivors. A police notification regarding the same, ( a copy of which is available with SUNDAY MiD DAY) has been issued on October 29 to all 93 police stations across the city.

SUNDAY MiD DAY had reported on September 29 (‘ Take sexual assault survivors to nearest hospital, urges top cop’), how medical officers had a meeting with the Joint Commissioner of Police ( Admn) Hemant Nagrale and had a detailed discussion on the issue along with Police Surgeon SM Patil. One of the suggestions made was to divide the shortlisted hospitals for respective police stations, just the way postmortem centres are divided in the city.u00a0This was suggested to reduce th load of Nagpada Police Hospital and also ensure that prompt medical assistance is given to sexual assault survivors and vital evidence is collected.