CIVIC HOSPITAL IN VASHI TO GET 24 NEW CCTVS

VASHI: The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) has decided to install 24 more closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras at the Vashi municipal hospital to ensure better surveillance of patients, doctors and other staff and thereby preventing untoward incidents.

The decision was taken in in response to the hospital administration’s demand for more CCTV cameras to ensure that the staff feels safe at work. Authorities said that the present number of CCTV cameras were inadequate to monitor all the activity at the hospital and hence, the hospital administration has asked the civic body to install more such cameras.

While 16 CCTVs have already been installed at the civic hospital, with the installation of new ones, this number will rise to 40.

NMMC’ electrical department has sent a proposal for installing CCTV cameras at the hospital to the municipal commissioner for approval, said GV Rao, additional city engineer (electrical) NMMC. Tenders will soon be invited for the CCTV cameras, once requisite sanctions have been received.

Rao said, “The cameras will be installed at prominent locations as suggested by the hospital administration. The new cameras will have the capacity to store data for one month as against the shorter duration of the earlier cameras.”