Though the proposed project with the Gurgaon based Medanta Group has been unofficially scuttled, the Hong Kong based donors Pervin and Jal Shroff have pledged to "continue to support The B. D. Petit Parsee General Hospital (PGH) in any way deemed prudent and financially sound to ensure the PGH’s future survival and well-being,” stated the couple in a communication to Parsiana on April 6, 2019.
The Shroffs and Medanta had given a deadline of March 31 to the PGH management to resolve differences within the community. The couple had pledged USD 22.5 million (Rs 156 crores) to construct a new cosmopolitan hospital to be run by Medanta. An annual amount and a percentage of the turnover of the new venture was to accrue to PGH. Two parties filed appeals before the Charity Commissioner opposing the proposal.
Artist’s impression of the cosmopolitan medical facility proposed alongside The B. D. Petit Parsee General Hospital
A letter from 37 consultant doctors of PGH to the Parsi Press on April 2, 2019 urged the dissenters to the PGH-Medanta scheme to "relook, with a true and open mind, that all aspects of the community welfare are secure, and then be honest and fair and permit the project to go through with their blessings. Please understand that we doctors have no personal stake, but we see and try to help the plight of the community everyday and we know this is the Hospital’s and the community’s last chance for survival. Please do not destroy the Hospital, do not do irreparable harm to the community…
"We are fully aware of the shortcoming of our Hospital, and know these are due to unavoidable financial reasons, in spite of the robust efforts of the president and executive committee of the PGH, behind whom we stand in full support and understanding.
"We are aware and vocal that the Hospital is poorly equipped to run with total efficiency... We are aware of the ground reality — too small a community to make costly equipment viable, crippled by rising cost and pay structures, for in the end ‘Costly thy coat as thy purse can buy.’
"Our criticism and ire are constantly directed to the management, but in our hearts we ask, in which land, if any, has one family (the Petits) donated, secured donations, labored, struggled to the utmost limit of their capacity to sustain a Hospital that has served a community in every aspect of healthcare for 107 years...”
The signatories are doctors F. E. Udwadia, T. E. Udwadia, D. M. Anklesaria, P. D. Hakim, R. P. Soonawala, P. P. Hakim, K. S. Adrianwala, B. B. Pardiwala, D. D. Nicholson, P. F. Desai, B. B. Ichaporia, K. P. Balsara, N. K. Tibrewala, Z. F. Udwadia, A. M. Havewala, D. F. Soonawala, A. C. Contractor, Anahita Pundole, K. K. Dadachanji, Khojasteh Dastoor, K. M. Mody, V. N. Bamboat, G. J. Bhagat, A. R. Nazir, J. D. Sunavala, S. A. Golwalla, S. P. Vatcha, C. N. Dubash, F. J. Master, P. F. Soonawala, J. J. Bunshah,. F. R. Soonawala, K. B. Kapadia, Daisy V. Jokhi, Mahinoor Desai, Rustom A. Mody and Anahita D. Sinor.