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Maternity-cum-Child Care Hospital in Kangan fails to turn into a reality

Maternity-cum-Child Care Hospital in Kangan fails to turn into a reality
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Kangan: It has been 15 years and still the Maternity-cum-Child Care Hospital (M&CCH) in Kangan town of Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district has remained an unfulfilled dream for the locals.
Notably, the 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 civil work on the hospital that was supposed to come up at an estimated cost of Rs 27.66 crores.
Locals said that with the completion of hospital the people of the area would have been able to witness maternity and child care health facilities and they would not have to move to other towns and city hospitals.
“From past 15 years, this hospital has been in construction mode. The Contractor sometimes stops the work for months together and sometimes starts the work. Nobody is there to check his works or see whether he is following the timeline provided for completion of the building,” the locals alleged.
They said the completion of this hospital will not only lessen the burden of Lal Ded Hospital but it will also provide relief to patients from Kangan and adjacent areas.
“Whenever we approach the authorities, they cite paucity of funds as the reason for the delay in completion of the works,” 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,” said Sarpanch of the area.
An official of the Housing Board attributed the slow pace of work to non-availability of funds during the past few years.
Chief Medical Officer Ganderbal Dr Mehrajuddin Sofi said that there are no funds available at the moment.
“The work on the hospital will be started once the funds are available,” he said. (KNT)


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