India, Dec. 31 -- As severely injured patients from the Bhandup bus crash were rushed to nearby hospitals late on Tuesday night, the MT Agarwal Municipal General Hospital, the closest facility to the accident site and inaugurated barely ten days ago, struggled to handle the emergency.

The civic-run hospital in Mulund, reopened after being rebuilt and expanded into a super-speciality facility, retained only two patients for basic treatment, referring the rest elsewhere. The hospital is not yet equipped to handle patients requiring advanced or emergency care.

Among those injured in the crash was 39-year-old Sheetal Hadve, who was returning home to Bhandup from her workplace in Kanjurmarg. According to her family, Sheetal had just alighted...