Even two days after this paper's report about patients being attacked by rats in a BMC hospital, readers' comments continue to pour in about the unhygienic state of the medical care centres across the city.

The report highlighted how rats nibbled at one victim's eye, while another woman's toe was gnawed on by the rodents. The hospital management has merely placed traps around the premises, while the rodents continue to have the run of the place. There is a blame game on with the authorities blaming the patients for leaving food next to their beds, attracting the rats. Whatever the reason, there is little doubt that this issue needs to be addressed and solved on a war footing. Rats inside medical premises, that too running all over the patients is unimaginable and unforgivable.