17 years, M&CCH Kangan awaits completion.
17 years, M&CCH Kangan awaits completion
Work to start soon:- CMO
BY : BILAL AHMAD/PTK
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Press Trust of kashmir | Ganderbal :- It has been 17 years and yet the Maternity-cum-Child Care Hospital (M&CCH) here in Kangan town of Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district is awaiting completion.
Land for the hospital was identified in 2005 when Ghulam Nabi Azad was the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir while Jammu Kashmir Housing Board was directed to execute the work on the hospital that was supposed to come up at an estimated cost of Rs 27.66 crores.
Locals said that the foundation stone for the 100-bed Maternity-cum-Childcare Hospital Kangan was laid eight years back during the National Conference (NC)-Congress coalition government in 2014
Locals told that with the completion of hospital the people of the area would receive best maternity and child care health facilities and they would not have to move to Srianagar so far
Locals told the Press Trust of Kashmir, that The Contractor sometimes stops the work for months together and sometimes starts the work as hospital in last eight years in in construction mode.
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Nobody is there to care for this hospital and the local people, they said.
They said the completion of this hospital will not only lessen the burden of Lal Ded Hospital but it will also give relief to patients from Kangan and adjacent areas.
“Whenever we approach the authorities, they cite paucity of funds as the reason,” said a local.
“Government had promised us that it will be a 100 bed hospital. Not talking of infrastructure but even building is not getting completed,” locals said.
Locals requested higher ups to look into the matter.
Meanwhile CMO Ganderbal told PTK that work was put on halt due to paucity of funds while now funds have been made available and work is expected to start soon. :-PTK.
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