Mumbai: Expressing concern over the waterlogging at the civic-run KEM Hospital in Parel during Monday’s downpour, Bombay high court on Thursday directed BMC to take immediate remedial measures to ensure such flooding does not recur.The assistant dean of KEM Hospital was present in court and, through govt pleader P P Kakade, submitted the hospital’s intention to take remedial measures to avoid such incidents in the future. The HC vacation bench of Justices Gauri Godse and Somasekhar Sundaresan, hearing a suo motu (on its own) plea in public interest, questioned the state health department and BMC following reports of rainwater flooding KEM Hospital and disrupting crucial medical services. The court cited media reports and photographs produced before it on the inundated hospital grounds with patients wading in ankle-deep water.The PIL was initiated following recent deaths of patients in govt hospitals in Nanded and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar districts in 2023. The HC earlier questioned the lack of medical staff, medical equipment, and infrastructure at all civic and civil hospitals in the state. An advocate, Mohit Khanna, assisting the HC, sought directions from the court to BMC.“KEM Hospital at one point in time was one of the topmost hospitals; people used to come from all over India for treatment. Look at the condition. KEM Hospital cannot allow waterlogging like this anywhere. There has to be hygiene and cleanliness. Something has to be done,” the judges said orally on seeing the photographs.Govt pleader Kakade said he would also place on record, steps that the state health department would take to avoid such incidents of waterlogging at the civic hospital in the future.HC issued a notice to the BMC and asked its officials to visit the hospital, suggest remedial measures to address the grievances, and file an affidavit before the court in that regard. The court also sought an affidavit from the state govt on measures to be taken by the next hearing on June 16.