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| 'Others deliver speeches while I work' | | Day 2: CM reviews city's health infrastructure | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Nov 6
When Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad gets set on the job in field he rarely misses to draw a comparison with other political leaders. As he took a whirlwind tour of the city today to assess the development of health infrastructure, Azad said that he words single mindedly and development tops his mind.
"Every political leader has his own priorities and my priority number one is development of Jammu and Kashmir", Azad said while speaking to the accompanying media persons to various project sites. "Development is my main agenda on which I am working single mindedly", he added.
He said while others might believe in only making speeches he personally believed in doing practical work. About his visit to various hospitals, Chief Minister said, "in keeping with my regular monitoring of major public utility projects initiated by the government, today I visited three major health sector related projects".
The Chief Minister expressed satisfaction over the pace of work on mega infrastructure projects initiated by his government in the three regions of the State and said the double and triple shift system of work had yielded very good results. He said the projects which would normally take 4 to 5 years to complete were being executed in 18 months under the new system.
The Chief Minister first visited the under-construction 200 bed 4-storey additional paediatric block of the SMGS Hospital coming up at an estimated cost of Rs. 16.24 crore. The construction of the mega project would be completed by May 2008 and cope with the rush of paediatric patients. He discussed the details of the project with concerned engineers and instructed them to start interior finishing and land development concurrently with the construction work. He also told them to landscape the courtyard of the hospital.
Azad also visited the upcoming additional emergency block of Government Medical College Hospital, work on which was started in June this year. The 4-storey block would be completed in a record period of 11 months in May 2008. The additional emergency block coming up at a cost of Rs. 7.88 crores would comprise 8 wards, 4 operation theatres, one recovery room, one intensive care unit, 25 examination cubicles and other facilities including stretcher lift.
The Chief Minister had a look at the hospital premises also and asked the concerned officers to shift the parking area from the front to the rear of the hospital building. He also issued instructions for developing the frontyard of the hospital as a park.
The Chief Minister also visited the nearby Sir Col. R. N. Chopra Nursing Home run by the Government Medical College. He dropped in some wards and enquired from inpatients about the health care and related facilities being provided to them. He called for better upkeep of the nursing home. |
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