India, Feb. 6 -- Patients and their kin visiting Aundh District Hospital (ADH) are facing severe hardships as several key services remain non-functional for months, exposing yawning gaps in the city's public health system, officials said.

ADH is considered the tertiary care facility of the public health department in the district and patients from all across the district visit the hospital. To begin with, the hospital mortuary has been out-of-order for nearly a month, forcing bereaved families to ferry the bodies of their loved ones to Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital (YCMH) or Sassoon General Hospital, both of which face frequent space shortages. ADH has a six-unit mortuary facility of which, four units have been out-of-order and tw...