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Super Speciality Hospital: PMK warns government

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‘Project aimed at providing best medicare to poor people'

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Angry crowd:Pattali Makkal Katchi cadre staging a demonstration near the Super Speciality Hospital in Salem on Saturday. —

SALEM: The Salem district unit of Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) on Saturday staged a demonstration near the Super Speciality Hospital here following rumours that the Rs. 140-crore on-going project would be shelved.

Led by youth wing State secretary R. Arul, the cadre raised slogans against the alleged move to close down the hospital.

They pointed out that party youth wing leader Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss, when he was the Union Minister for Health, sanctioned the project to provide the best medicare to the poor people of West Zone on the lines of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).

“But after a change in government in the State, there are reports that the project will be shelved,” said the cadre. They claimed that the hospital though completed long back was yet to be taken over by the State Public Works Department. Specialists had been appointed and advanced medical equipment also had been installed. “But the hospital management has moved the patients out of it without assigning any valid reason,” said Mr. Arul.

They warned the government that if any decision was taken to shelve the project, agitations would be organised with the support of residents of Salem, they said and urged the State Government to sanction adequate funds to commission the hospital immediately for the welfare of the people.

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