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| Lack of funds hit construction of maternity-cum-child care hospital in Kangan | | | Early Times Report
KANGAN, Oct, 29: It has been 15 years and yet the Maternity-cum-Child Care Hospital (M&CCH) here in Kangan town of Central Kashmir's Ganderbal district is not completed. As per the local news report, 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 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 the hospital the people of the area would receive the best maternity and child care health facilities and they would not have to move to other towns and city hospitals. "From the past 15 years, this hospital has in construction mode. The Contractor sometimes stops the work for months together and sometimes starts the work. Nobody is there to care for this hospital and the local people," said locals. They said the completion of this hospital will not only lessen the burden of Lal Ded Hospital but it will also give relief to patients from Kangan and adjacent areas. "Whenever we approach the authorities, they cite paucity of funds as the reason," 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 in past years.
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