Sick Hospital

Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Hospital or Sion Hospital has been in the news for the wrong reasons. Recently, 11 of its resident doctors contracted tuberculosis because of squalid living conditions in their hostels. However, the filth is not only restricted to the RMO quarters.

When visitors walk into the main hospital building, the smell of decay and hopelessness greet them. One has to be careful not to tread on any relatives who are sprawled across the corridors either eating or taking a quick nap. The most dreaded floor, however, is the second floor with the paediatric wards.

Shrieking toddlers are seen squatting on the corridors along with their harassed parents who try to pacify their kids in vain. Many of these toddlers vomit, and even worse, defecate on the corridors right out of the neonatal wards. The parents don’t bother cleaning up after their kids ‘work’. If you’re unfortunate enough to step on the human feces or vomit, it is because you weren’t carefully watching every single step you were taking inside Sion Hospital’s paan stained building.