India, Nov. 13 -- The viral video of an elderly patient at KEM Hospital seated backwards on a flight of stairs, trying to hoist himself up while wearing a plaster cast on one leg, has the civic administration under intense fire. The 78-year-old patient had undergone ankle surgery but with no functioning lift in the hospital's orthopedic building, he was forced to push himself up the stairs.

The lift in the stand-alone building had given way and is in the process of being replaced, the hospital administration has said.

At the BMC's standing committee meeting on Thursday, corporators demanded accountability from the civic administration, quizzing them on infrastructure in civic-run hospitals. Raising a point of order, Byculla corporator Y...