The Hindu : `238 hospital buildings remaining unutilised'

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Friday, May 16, 2003

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Southern States - Kerala

`238 hospital buildings remaining unutilised'

By Our Staff Reporter

THRISSUR May 15. In a shocking disclosure, the Health Minister, P. Sankaran, today conceded that 238 completely constructed hospital buildings in various parts of the State are remaining unutilised because of shortage of staff. The Minister made this disclosure at a meeting of the MLAs from the district convened by him to discuss the construction of a separate DMO office in the district. These buildings have been constructed under extreme public pressure for developing the public health services and by spending crores of rupees pooled from various sources like MP funds, MLA funds, voluntary contributions.

Some of them are of more than 20 years of age, according to the sources in the Health Department. For example the one at Vallachira in Thrissur district was constructed when the CPI leader, K P Prabhakaran, was the Health Minister in the early 1980s. Similarly one building constructed at Poyya in Mala constituency is still remaining unutilised, the sources told The Hindu here.

Interestingly, when the Health Department had made it clear that they will not create new posts when they were giving the sanction for those buildings in the early phases.

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