Conflicting Accounts Emerge in KDMC Hospital Assault Case

Sadhana Karande, the mother of a patient denied emergency care at a Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation hospital, has publicly defended Shiv Sena Corporator Ramesh Mhatre against assault allegations. She claims Mhatre intervened only after hospital staff repeatedly refused to treat her daughter during a medical crisis exacerbated by severe weather.

Editorial·July 8, 2026·reads: 677

Conflicting Accounts Emerge in KDMC Hospital Assault Case

Karande described a harrowing scene where medical personnel insisted on transferring her critically ill daughter to Sion Hospital rather than providing immediate stabilization. Facing a deteriorating situation and a rigid administrative stance, she turned to Mhatre—whom she calls Dada—to advocate for her daughter’s right to care.

Mhatre, for his part, maintains that his presence at the facility was a response to systemic negligence rather than a criminal act. He stated that the CCTV footage circulating in the media mischaracterizes his attempts to address the hospital's failures. While expressing regret that the confrontation occurred, he denies the assault charges, framing the incident as a necessary push against bureaucratic indifference that endangers local patients.