NMMC fails to keep its promise
By Dinesh Kamath
VASHI: The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation had
undertaken the task of constructing the three 100-bed civic hospitals at Nerul,
Belapur and Airoli. But owing to the considerable delay in completing the
construction work, NMMC authorities had to face the wrath of corporators. The
civic body has not been able to complete the construction of these three
hospitals within the time they had specified.
However, Mayor
Sagar Naik is confident that the three hospitals will start operating by
February. The hospital will be soon equipped with both equipments and staff,
promised Sagar Naik.
The corporators
felt agitated owing to the fact that NMMC has been showing negligence in the
matter of health issues. According to them, hospitals are urgent needs of the
residents of the city and hence constructing of these three hospitals should
have been given the top priority and they should have been completed by now.
The corporators were of the view that NMMC authorities should stick to their
promises. They had promised that the work on the hospitals would be completed
by early 2013 and yet they have not been able to live up to their promise.
The engineering
department blames the health department for this delay since the latter has yet
to install the medical equipments over there. But the health department defends
itself by saying that constructing of hospitals is not their job but the work
of engineering department which has failed to hand over the completed hospitals
to them.
However, it is
left to be seen whether Mayor’s assurance that the hospitals will become
operational from February will turn out to be true or not. Corporators wish to
know how NMMC will do the completing of internal fittings and installing of
medical equipments before February.
Many residents
of Navi Mumbai are eagerly waiting for these hospitals to come up since they
are not happy with the current situation where scarcity of health centres is
badly felt.
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