Archive · 1 Sep 2025
Mumbai's Cooper Hospital: Patient queues after staff contracts expire
Imagine a hospital where people go to see doctors.
Some helpers who register patients didn't come to work because their jobs weren't renewed on time.
This caused big lines at the hospital.
Patients had to wait a long time, and some even had to go home without seeing a doctor.
The hospital usually has many people to help, but now there were only a few, making things slow.
The people who work in the hospital want the hospital to hire them permanently, instead of having temporary jobs.
They are talking about it, but the problem happened because the paperwork for their jobs wasn't done on time.
Patients experienced long wait times at Cooper Hospital's OPD in Mumbai.
The delays resulted from contract record assistants not reporting for duty.
Around 15 contract staff members were absent due to expired contracts.
The Municipal Union stated the contracts were not renewed in time.
The union is demanding permanent appointments for the staff.
- Who
- Patients and contract staff at Cooper Hospital, Mumbai.
- What
- Patients faced long queues and delayed treatment due to absent contract staff.
- When
- Monday; The record assistants' contracts ended and were not renewed.
- Where
- Dr. R. N. Cooper Municipal General Hospital, Vile Parle (West), Mumbai
- Why
- Contract staff's contracts expired and were not renewed, causing a shortage of registration staff.
- Hospital
- Dr. R. N. Cooper Municipal General Hospital
- Location
- Vile Parle (West), Mumbai
- Issue
- Expired contracts for record assistants
- Staff Affected
- Approximately 15 contract record assistants
- Cause of Disruption
- Contract staff not reporting for duty
- Union Demands
- Permanent appointments for staff
- OPD Hours
- Monday to Saturday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.