India, July 14 -- Between the burgeoning demand for affordable/free healthcare services and inadequate public healthcare facilities in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad, there is growing pressure on hospitals such as Pune's Sassoon General Hospital (SGH) and Pimpri-Chinchwad's Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital (YCMH) as a large number of patients continues to seek treatment at these already burdened facilities, officials said.

Under the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), there is only one hospital run by the state medical education department, namely SGH. Most of the other civic hospitals run by the PMC are dispensaries and maternity homes with only one general hospital; all these facilities lack advanced healthcare services.

The SGH outpatie...