Overview
- The BMC Health Committee, which voted Friday, endorsed renaming King Edward Memorial as 'Kaushalyashreshtha Ekalavya Memorial (KEM) Hospital'.
- The recommendation now goes to the municipal commissioner for administrative clearance before a vote of the full BMC.
- The resident doctors’ association at KEM called the move unacceptable and urged fixes to hostel conditions, frequent lift breakdowns, and delayed stipends.
- State minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha initiated the change as part of an effort to replace colonial-era names with Indian ones.
- Shiv Sena (UBT) corporator Aboli Khade opposed the proposal, calling Lodha’s push interference in local wards at a hospital with 2,250 beds and heavy daily footfall.