If everything goes well, all BMC hospitals in the city will have enhanced security cover, soon. At present most of the peripheral hospitals have inadequate security personnel roped in from BMC, Maharashtra Security Service Corporation (MSSC) and a private security agency.

Dr Neelam Andrade, director, medical education and major hospitals of BMC, said, “We have decided to enhance the security across all major and peripheral hospitals, the BMC Chief Security Officer (CSO) is in the process of making required Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and have given instructions to conduct orientation program for the existing security personnel (BMC, MSSC and private security guards) deployed at hospitals in crowd management. We have adequate security numbers, just relocation, reorganization n SOPs n orientation needed.”
 
As some of the security personnel deployed in BMC hospitals are untrained in mob handling, the chief security officer of BMC has been now asked to come up with a special orientation course on mob handling and plan SOPs to thwart incidents of assault on doctors.
 
Meanwhile, MSSC has agreed to the BMC’s request to provide an additional 2,500 security guards. Once the contract is ready, it is likely that MSSC may provide the security guards to BMC by December this year.
 
MSSC guards trained by SRPF