Plans to utilize the now defunct Parsi Lying-In Hospital await approval
A proposal to develop the nearly 120-year-old Parsi Lying-in Hospital into a super specialty orthopedic hospital has been forwarded to the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) for approval. The story on the now defunct maternity Hospital’s conversion was broken by DNA correspondent Manoj Nair in an article titled "Parsi hosp rent lease sparks row” on September 23, 2011.
The article mentioned that a 30-year lease was to be entered into between the Hospital management and a team of doctors led by Dr Prakash Khubchandani. The 99-year-old government lease for the Hospital expired in 1992.
BPP chairman Dinshaw Mehta was quoted as saying "we......