According to the GMCH administration, due to some pending work such as electrification and installation of water supply pipeline, the building is still in possession of the Building and Construction (B&C) department at the PWD.

"A meeting in this regard has been organised on Friday with the PWD officials and hopefully the existing dialysis unit at the medicine department will be shifted to the new building soon," said GMCH medical superintendent Suhas Jewlikar.

However, the B&C department assistant engineer S A Wakle said that all pending work has been completed and the GMCH administration needs to make a trial test of their machines to check if things are in place.

Ruing the apathy of government mismanagement some social activists have complained that the lethargic attitude of higher authorities is taking a toll on patients' health.

"It has been over a year that the building has been kept locked. Presently, the GMCH medicine department is taking care of dialysis and other kidney-related disease. After the inauguration of the new building, hopes of patients coming from across Marathwada and other regions suffering from various kidney diseases had been raised. But, to no avail," said social activist Ashok Borde.

He said, "On one hand the government inaugurated the state-of-the-art unit but on the other failed to make it functional. About 30% of the daily number of outdoor patienta (OPD) and surgeries performed at the GMCH constitute kidney-related cases. The medicine department offers dialysis services and treatment to around 150 patients every month. If the required facilities and experts were made available, the hospital would have treated many more patients every month."

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