The site where a building in South Mumbai collapsed after a fire in 2015 has become a dumping ground for waste. Debris from the construction works, like repairs and renovations of buildings near this one, has found a convenient parking spot at this very spot.

Harrowed residents are watching this turn into a definite health hazard. A mix of debris and garbage piling on to that means that fears about this being the source of illness do have merit. Mumbai has also seen considerable rain right till September-end. The BMC was warning people about dengue and malaria and beating the drums quite rightly about clean surroundings. It is also hugely complicated to contract an illness as the pandemic sweeps across the city and nation. Doctors’ visits, hospitalisation do certainly get more difficult during outbreak times. These are not impossible but certainly more challenging.