Patients at BMC-run Nair hospital are complaining of inconvenience owing to the lack of an in-house CT scan machine. While the hospital claims that patients are being referred to JJ hospital or NM medical centre and charged the municipal corporation rate, some patients claim that they were asked to visit private facilities.

One patient, Mumtaz Sheikh, 60, a Jogeshwari resident, was involved in a motorcycle accident and rushed to Balasaheb Thackeray Trauma Hospital. The doctors there advised her family to go to either Sion hospital or Nair hospital for an operation on her right leg. Athiya Sheikh-Fareed, Mumtaz’s daughter, told mid-day, “On reaching Nair hospital, the doctors told us that a CT scan was necessary before the operation and directed us to Chitra scanning centre in Dadar.”