The largest Municipal Corporation of the country, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will soon score the title of being the first civic body in the country to have a health university status, if things go as per the plans.

We are in the process of setting up a health university. It will either be a deemed or an autonomous varsity. BMC has the infrastructure needed to set up one, and it will be the first civic body to have a health varsity of its own, said Manisha Mhaiskar, Additional Municipal Commissioner (Health).

BMC has also formed a study group under the chairmanship of Dr Sandhya Kamat, dean of KEM hospital, to examine the requirements for a health varsity.

Mhaiskar said BMCs health care facilities cater to 60 per cent of the citys total population and setting of a health university would be of great help. The project is in its preliminary stage now. The study group will submit its report by October-end. We will approach the University Grants Commission in November seeking health university status for BMC health care facilities, she said.

At present, three major hospitals/medical colleges and other health care facilities run by BMC function under the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS), Nashik.

The civic body is also planning to strengthen its healthcare system by linking its major hospitals to the peripheral ones.

Five peripheral hospitals will be linked to a major hospital. This way, all 16 peripheral hospitals will be linked to the three major civic hospitals ” KEM in Parel, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital in Sion and the BYL Nair Hospital in Mumbai Central, said Mhaiskar.

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