Summary:
Mumbai, Dec 4 (PTI) Maharashtra BJP leader Ashish Shelar on Saturday alleged that a Shiv Sena leader had called goons and manhandled corporators of BJP in the general body meeting of the Mumbai civic body when they tried to raise the death of a toddler boy and his father, injured in a cylinder explosion in a chawl (tenement), due to alleged negligence by civic-run Nair Hospital in treating them.
Four members of a family, all residents of a chawl in Worli area, were injured in a fire on Tuesday that broke out after a cylinder blast.
The baby boy and his father later succumbed to their injuries at the Nair hospital.
The civic body on Friday suspended two doctors of this hospital and a nurse for the alleged negligence.
"BJP corporators tried to raise the alleged negligence by doctors of BYL Nair Hospital that led to the death of a four-month-old boy and his father.
When our corporators tried to raise this issue in the general meeting of the BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) the standing committee chairman Yashwant Jadhav allegedly abused and threatened them.