The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is set to open a new Health Training Centre in Malad’s Malvani area on 6 December 2025, marking a significant step toward improving primary healthcare access for nearly 3.5 lakh residents in Mumbai’s western suburbs. The facility is expected to reduce the load on major municipal hospitals and bring essential medical services closer to underserved communities.
According to officials, the centre has been developed to function as a decentralised healthcare hub, offering outpatient consultations, community health services, and training programmes. The inauguration will be attended by senior representatives from the state government, reflecting the administration’s growing emphasis on neighbourhood-level health infrastructure. The facility will be operated by a team of around 35 medical professionals, including doctors, staff, and trainees from a leading public medical college and its associated hospital, under the supervision of the Community Medicine Department. Outpatient services will run between 9.30 am and 4 pm, with the capacity to serve up to 300 patients daily. Core services include general medicine, women’s health, dermatology, dentistry, and tuberculosis treatment—areas that remain critical for densely populated localities such as Malvani.
Officials noted that the centre will gradually integrate an advanced Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) to streamline patient data, appointments, and records as staffing levels expand. Health planners say such digital systems support equitable access by reducing paperwork, improving transparency, and enabling smoother referral pathways for patients requiring secondary or tertiary care. Spread across five floors, the Malvani Health Training Centre has been designed to function as both a community medical facility and a training ecosystem. It includes spacious waiting zones, specialist consulting rooms, vaccination units, a public health museum, a library, and a research centre. Patients who need higher-level care will be referred to municipal hospitals, strengthening the continuum between local primary care and city-wide medical networks.
Beyond clinical services, the centre is expected to play a substantial role in health outreach. As part of its community engagement mandate, it will organise awareness sessions, medical camps, special health days, street plays, training workshops, and collaborative programmes with local civil society groups. Public health experts point out that such initiatives are essential in dense urban areas where preventive care often takes a back seat due to economic and spatial constraints. The launch of the Malad Malvani centre is also being viewed through the lens of Mumbai’s broader health resilience strategy, which aims to build accessible, gender-neutral, and inclusive facilities across the city. With climate-related health risks rising and urban populations expanding, officials emphasise that decentralised primary healthcare is vital for reducing pressure on emergency systems and fostering more sustainable urban living.
BMC Launches Malad Malvani Health Centre To Serve 3.5 Lakh Residents Soon
