Archive · 19 Sep 2026
Panvel Dialysis Centres Delayed, PMC Promises Operation Within Three Months
The Panvel Municipal Corporation is building two dialysis centres for local patients.
One centre is in Kharghar and the other is in New Panvel East.
The projects have not been finished even though they began nearly a year ago.
The Kharghar centre is about three-quarters complete.
The New Panvel centre is about 60% complete.
Both centres still need medical oxygen pipeline systems.
Each centre will have 25 beds for dialysis treatment.
PMC officials say both centres should open within three months.
Critics say the delay is forcing patients to travel between facilities for treatment.
The Panvel Municipal Corporation’s two dialysis centres have remained incomplete for nearly a year.
The Kharghar centre is 75% complete, while the New Panvel centre is 60% complete.
Both facilities require medical oxygen pipeline systems, with tendering currently under way.
Each centre is planned to have 25 dialysis beds for affordable treatment.
PMC officials promise to complete and operationalise both centres within three months.
- Who
- The Panvel Municipal Corporation, its officials, local representatives and residents are involved.
- What
- Two PMC dialysis centres remain incomplete, and the corporation promises to complete and open them within three months.
- When
- The projects have remained incomplete for nearly a year; the New Panvel project received approval on June 26 last year and its work order was issued in November.
- Where
- The centres are planned for Sector 7 in New Panvel East and plot no. 17 in Sector 36, Kharghar.
- Why
- The centres are intended to provide affordable dialysis treatment to Panvel residents, while delays have been attributed by the civic administration to lengthy administrative procedures.
Civic Administration
Opposition and Residents
Reason for delay
Civic Administration
PMC officials said both centres are in the final stage and indicated that administrative procedures took considerable time.
Opposition and Residents
Opposition leader Arvind Mhatre criticised the delay and questioned why approved projects had not been implemented after work orders were issued.
Urgency of opening
Civic Administration
PMC officials and the mayor said they had instructed officials or planned inspections to expedite completion and start the centres at the earliest.
Opposition and Residents
Critics and residents said patients are being forced to travel between facilities for dialysis and urged the PMC to make the centres functional promptly.
- Facilities
- Two dialysis centres are being developed in New Panvel East and Kharghar.
- Planned capacity
- Each centre will have 25 dialysis beds.
- Kharghar progress
- The Kharghar centre is reported to be 75% complete.
- New Panvel progress
- The New Panvel centre is reported to be 60% complete.
- Project costs
- The estimated costs were Rs 1.85 crore for Kharghar and Rs 1.70 crore for New Panvel.
- Pending work
- Medical oxygen pipeline systems are still required at both centres, with tendering under way.
- PMC target
- The civic administration aims to complete and operationalise both centres within three months.