Maharashtra : The sprawling 1.20 lakh sq ft parking plaza next to Jupiter Hospital in Thane, which was once transformed into a crucial Covid-19 field hospital, is now in a state of total neglect. What was once a symbol of emergency response during the peak of the pandemic, is today a dust-covered wasteland — highlighting glaring lapses in property management by the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) post-pandemic.
Piles of unused hospital beds, ICU equipment and ambulances — once urgently procured and deployed to save lives — now lie abandoned under layers of dust in the same parking lot that was repurposed as a Covid care centre. According to a source familiar with the matter, the makeshift hospital was set up in 2020, with around 1,000 general hospital beds and 200 ICU beds equipped with ventilators, each costing around ₹7 lakh.
