The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has proposed a 22.14% increase in the health department budget for 2026-27.
The revised budget for 2025-26 was INR 6,104.75 crore, which included INR 4537.05 crore as revenue expenditure and INR 1567.70 crore as capital expenditure.
The budget estimate for 2026-27 has been raised to INR 4756.80 crore. Of this, INR 5237.09 crore has been earmarked for revenue expenditure and INR 2219.17 crore for capital works.
This indicates that there will be more expenditure on operations and infrastructure.
In the next two to three years, setting up 4,556 new hospital beds in major redeveloped facilities is a key decision. These include (470 beds), (580 beds), (490 beds) and the first phase of redevelopment (600 beds).
Additional capacity is being created at Siddhartha Hospital, Bhandup Multi Speciality Hospital, Sangharsh Nagar Hospital and Krantiveer Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Hospital.
Super-specialty services are being expanded at King Edward Memorial Hospital, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital and BYL Nair Hospital, including new transplant, oncology, dialysis and emergency facilities.
3-Tesla MRI machines have been purchased for four major hospitals and will be operational soon.
The municipal corporation will continue to outsource healthcare services. According to the civic body, over 20,000 dialysis sessions were conducted under the PPP model in 2025, with plans to expand further.
The municipality is also preparing for the fully digital Census of India, which will be held in two phases in 2026 and 2027.
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