JOIN USNew hospital building still awaits opening
This new building of the hospital has no luck of being inaugurated for benefit of public. Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda was to have inaugurated the building on May 3. But with the jinxed district tag, that is a far fetched idea.
The District government hospital of Chamarajanagar was upgraded to 250 beds capacity from 150.
A new building of Rs nine crore was constructed beside the old building.
Though it has been more than a year since the construction is completed, it has not been inaugurated till now. Dates of inauguration is also being postponed every now and then.
The new building constructed under the State health project, was scheduled to be inaugurated on May 3. It was even printed in the invitation card that chief minister D V Sadananda Gowda would inaugurate the programme.
It is said that bowing to superstitious beliefs, visit of the chief minister was cancelled to the districts.
The printed invitation cards are now thrown into dust bin.
Apart from this health department has shown its irresponsibility by printing wrong day.
The day and the date are mismatching. May 3 is Thursday while on the card it is printed May 3 as Friday.
According to regulations of the government, medical staff should be appointed when the hospital building is 75 per cent complete.
Necessary medical instruments should also be provided.
But the hospital has not been provided with any said facilities.
Neither district in charge minister nor local representatives have tried to convince chief minister to visit district. Public urge the respective authorities to appoint staff and inaugurate the hospital.
Amidst chief minister’s superstitious belief and negligence of local representatives and officials, public are said be deprived of utilising hospital facilities.