India, Oct. 28 -- With the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections on the horizon, a broad coalition of civic organisations and health worker unions has intensified its agitation against the ongoing privatisation of Mumbai's public hospitals under public-private partnership (PPP) arrangements, now rebranded as civic-health collaboration.

The "Aspatal Bachao, Nijikaran Hatao Kriti Samiti" ("Save Hospitals, Stop privatisation"), representing over 25 organisations, has launched a campaign demanding that the BMC immediately halt all PPP-based projects, fill vacant posts across hospitals, and strengthen the city's public health system instead of outsourcing it to private players.

The coalition announced that it will organise cityw...