Pen: Patients at Pen-s multi-speciality Mangla Nursing Home and Cancer Hospital, on the Mumbai Goa Highway, over the last one week have been asked to go home and return the next day for treatment as the hospital had lost its electricity connection due to the impact of Cyclone Nisarga and the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited MSEDCL hasn-t been prompt in restoring it.

Run by Dr Siddhartha Patil and his wife Dr Vaishnavi Patil, the hospital-s supply snapped on June 3 and took a week to be restored. "On June 4, I contacted the MSEDCL engineer and lineman on ground to restore the power and they assured me that it would be resolved in 48 hours. A cement electric pole was brought to the site on June 5 but it was not erected that day," says Dr Siddhartha. He says that the next day, the engineer assured him that work would be done by the by evening, but when that too didn-t happen, the doctor contacted the local police officer, Dy SP Nitin Jadhav, who called up the engineer and told him to restore power as hospitals come under essential services.