Despite having the infrastructure and equipment to treat paediatric patients, the civic-run Sewri TB Hospital is unable to do so as the facility lacks specialists. Recently, two doctors were appointed but they bowed out before joining, citing personal reasons. Due to this, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is once again on the lookout for doctors so that the underprivileged can avail themselves of the hospital’s services.

After the paediatric ward of the hospital was completed recently, people were hoping that the hospital hopping that paediatric TB patients are compelled to do would be a thing of the past. But the wait is not over yet. The TB hospital can accommodate almost 1,000 patients but for the past 4.5 years, paediatric patients haven’t been treated there.