Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s Medical Assistance Cell may be helping people, but the Kalyan Dombivli constituency, where his doctor son Shrikant Shinde is Member of Parliament, is facing a gross scarcity of doctors at its government hospital, a report in this paper stated. The state-run Central Hospital in Ulhasnagar has 70 per cent of doctor posts vacant. It is the same hospital where a doctor allegedly refused to deliver the baby of an Adivasi woman, which led to the foetus dying in the womb.

Patients are running from pillar to post for treatment due to the lack of doctors at the Central Hospital. During a visit, mid-day found that only five of 16 doctor posts were filled. The hospital is dependent on ‘on-call’ doctors, who people said are unavailable during an emergency.