Udupi: State govt to takeover Mother & Child Hospital, confirms home minister Bommai


Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (JD)

Udupi, Jun 28: The state home minister and district in-charge Basavaraj Bommai instructed the district administration to pass a resolution and send it to the government to takeover Koosamma Shambhu Shetty Memorial Haji Abdullah Mother & Child Hospital. The decision was made at a review meeting held on Monday, June 28.

Speaking at the review meet home minister Bommai said, "The hospital administration has written a letter to the state government regarding its inability to operate the hospital. The district administration needs to pass a resolution and send the required to me. I have spoken with the chief minister and also with the health minister regarding this issue. The principal secretary has responded positively. On July 1, I will be meeting the chief minister to discuss the issue. Earlier we had one unit for a 70-bed hospital, the government will be acting promptly on this matter. Staff positions for the 130-bed hospital will decided by the government. The facility will also be helpful during the third wave of Covid which is likely to largely affect the children," he said.

The hospital was inaugurated on November 19, 2017, with state-of-the-art infrastructure and medical facilities. The hospital also reached a milestone with 10,000 deliveries in March 2021.

The administration of BR Life recently wrote a letter to the state government regarding its inability to maintain the Koosamma Shambhu Shetty Memorial Haji Abdullah Mother & Child Hospital. The staff and doctors of the hospital also had staged a protest over unpaid salaries.

After the protest by the staff, both the ruling and opposition parties indulged in a war of words. Former MLA Pramodh Madhwaraj in whose tenure the hospital was handed over to BR Life alleged that current MLA Raghupathi Bhat was responsible for the chaos, which was denied by the latter. MLA Bhat hitting back at Madhwaraj stated that it was rather the reckless decisions by the Congress leader which caused the situation.

 

 

 

 

  

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  • Praj shetty, Udupi

    Tue, Jun 29 2021

    Its a good decision by the BJP government, to take over children & women hospital. It was an disaster by the the then udupi mla & previous government, to handover the land to private sector under PPP with many loopholes. But the government must takeover prime land in front of this hospital, given to BRShetty group, for construucting 400 bed super specialty hospital...

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  • Jeevan, Kudla

    Tue, Jun 29 2021

    Except salaries government has money for everything even to buy MLA'S, Jarkiholes honey trapping etc. etc.

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  • VM, Mangalore

    Tue, Jun 29 2021

    This is what happens when you give a government institution to a private entity.The District Government Maternity and Children’s Hospital was closed down and this hospital was allowed to be built there on a PPP model.And see what happens. The fate of our Mangalore airport could be the same .

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  • ca girishkk, m'lore/dxb

    Tue, Jun 29 2021

    The name to be amended..., and it is warranted... as the reason causing the take over of this hospital is not for an honorable one..., needless to say the least that, the covenants associated with such name change is vitiated for unsavory reasons..., and as we Hindustan's know that the govt of the day is expert in changing names .... may not find it difficult to do so... unless the motive is different...,

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  • Rahul, Mangalore

    Tue, Jun 29 2021

    Home minister is answering for health ministry queries. This is BJP government central to state.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Nallasopara

    Tue, Jun 29 2021

    Kindly pay salaries first ...

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