India, Sept. 4 -- The X-ray and sonography facilities at the urban health centre in Dharavi have not been working for the last three months. Located at Dharavi' 60-ft Road, patients in the locality either opt the paid but subsidised facilities at the centre or seek treatment at the civic-run Sion Hospital.

"The X-ray machines had been given to the centre as part of CSR donations during Covid-19 but they are not unusable. We get barely eight to ten cases for X-ray and there is no point spending on a new machine," said Dr Pramod Ingale, dean of Sion Hospital.

Known as 'Chota Sion' locally, urban health centres are extensions of Sion Hospital. "The private facilities at the centre are subsidised and reasonable compared to private facilitie...