Accommodation for family members of patients at KEM Hospital

Signatures:
  7 (Goal: 10,000)

Petitioning: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Petitioner: Sabita Hazari started on December 9, 2014

Every day hundreds of families come to Mumbai from all over India for cancer treatment at The Tata Memorial Hospital, KEM Hospital and other hospitals that have subsidized rates for the population who are BPL (below poverty line). Unfortunately, though the treatment may be good and subsidized, the family members cannot afford the exorbitant hotel rates and ridiculous cost of food and therefore sleep on the sidewalks outside the hospitals, very often eating one meal a day. We are requesting this petition be signed on behalf of these family members, that the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare build some kind of shelter for the family members. It is not acceptable that the family members of the very patients these hospitals are treating will not give them free or at least subsidized lodging/boarding accommodations and three meals a day. It is the duty of philanthropists like the Tatas to serve these people as they do their patients. Please sign this petition and let's make a difference!! Thank you!!