Archive · 26 Sep 2025
Mumbai BMC Hospitals Launch Online Portal and Medicine Shops
The BMC in Mumbai is making it easier to get information about hospitals.
They are creating an online portal with a dashboard and a chatbot.
This will help patients find out things like which facilities are available before they go.
They are also starting to allow shops that sell generic medicine at a lower cost in their hospitals.
These shops will be open all the time and offer medicine at discounted prices.
BMC hospitals will launch an online portal, dashboard, and chatbot.
Patients can check facilities and bed availability online.
NECOF will run 24/7 generic medicine shops in BMC hospitals.
Shops will offer affordable medicines under the Jan Aushadhi policy.
A token system will be piloted at Cooper Hospital.
- Who
- BMC health department and NECOF
- What
- Launching an online portal with a dashboard and chatbot, opening generic medicine shops
- When
- Soon
- Where
- BMC hospitals in Mumbai
- Why
- To provide information, reduce waiting times, and offer affordable healthcare
- Initiative
- Online portal, dashboard, chatbot, generic medicine shops
- Hospitals Included
- KEM, Sion, Nair, Cooper, suburban hospitals, and primary health centers
- Medicine Shops
- Generic medicine shops under Jan Aushadhi policy
- Shop Operator
- NECOF
- Shop Size
- 150 sq. ft.
- Shop Hours
- 24/7
- Additional Features
- Token system pilot at Cooper Hospital