The Indian Express 01.10.2013
Assembly polls: North corporation clears hospital plan in Rohini
Ahead of the Assembly elections, the North Municipal Corporation has
passed a resolution to construct a 13-storey general hospital at
Haiderpur in Rohini. The hospital will come up on a 7.5-acre plot of
wasteland.
According to the report of commissioner P K Gupta, site
inspection was done along with officials of the health and engineering
department, councillor Rekha Gupta and chairman (standing committee) Ram
Kishan Singhal. “During the inspection, it was decided to prepare a
comprehensive scheme for construction of a general hospital on the
plot,” the report said.
Accordingly, a preliminary estimate of Rs 596 crore has been
given by the engineering department. “The hospital will have 13 levels
above the ground structure and a two-level basement for parking. It will
be a green building with provisions for fire-fighting, lifts,
water-harvesting and air-conditioning plants, CCTVs, access control
system for security, solar water heating system and solar lighting,” the
commissioner said.
On the need for the hospital, Rekha Gupta said, “There are two
major private hospitals in the area and both are out of reach of poor
patients. We have a JJ slum cluster, whose residents cannot afford those
hospitals. On the other hand, there is no government hospital in the
area. So, we have decided to open the general hospital.”