M&CC Hospital Kangan to be ready by May 2025

Kangan, Nov 28: Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Mian Mehar Ali has taken a serious note of the inordinate delay in the completion of the 100 bedded Maternity Cum Child Care Hospital (M&CCH) in Kangan area of Ganderbal district. A decade has passed since the work on the hospital was started.

Greater Kashmir on Monday had reported about the inordinate delay in the completion of the hospital building causing hardships to the patients particularly children and female patients. Officials said that MLA Kangan held a meeting with the concerned health officials and from the J&K Housing Board to review the progress of the work on the hospital building. Sources said that he sought an explanation from the concerned agency entrusted with the project regarding the delay . They said that the concerned officials assured Mian Mehar Ali that the hospital building will be ready by May 2025 and handed over to the health department in time.

MLA said that he has taken up the issue with the government and concerned department and that he has been assured that the hospital building will be ready by May 2025.

Locals said that the foundation stone for the 100-bed Maternity-cum-Childcare Hospital Kangan was laid 10 years back during the then National Conference (NC)-Congress coalition government in 2014. However, the work on the hospital is yet to be completed despite passage of 10 years. The hospital coming up at an estimated cost of Rs 27 crore and the project work was entrusted with the J&K Housing Board. The hospital, was envisioned to provide essential maternity and child care services to the region, reducing the need for residents to seek treatment in distant city hospitals.

Locals told Greater Kashmir that the work on the hospital building had been stopped many times in the past few years due to which the aim of setting up the hospital was getting affected. The functioning of the maternity hospital at Kangan would have eased rush of maternity patients from the area to Srinagar hospitals.