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Western parts of Pune lack Civic HospitalsBy Riti, Section Health
The public health services in the city cut a sorry figure. The rapid urbanisation on one hand and the merger of around 23 villages have added to the already swollen population of the city. But the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) seems to be going at a snail's pace to address the health needs of the people, especially when it comes to people living in the western parts of the city.
Ironically when Pune is making long strides in private health services, there is not a single municipal corporationrun hospital in the western parts of the city. And the one that was chipping in with some services has been lying desolate for the last seven years. Jorvekar Dispensary located opposite the Poona Hospital, across the road that leads to Yashwantrao Chavan bridge, bears testimony to the PMC's apathy on one hand while on the other it represents the long struggle of a few individuals who have been fighting all these years to restore and revive the hospital. Click on Full Story for more.
"The PMC closed down the Jorvekar Dispensary and leased out its 15,000 square feet plot to the Poona Hospital for 99 years in 2001," said former Congress corporator Gopal Tiwari who had waged a war with the PMC on this issue and went on a four-day hunger strike to protest the move in which activists of the Jan-Arogya Abhiyan joined hands. PMC had entered into an agreement with the Poona Hospital that besides paying a one time premium of Rs 65 lakh, the Poona Hospital would also hand over to the PMC 92.90 square meter of constructed area in the proposed hospital building of the Poona Hospital on the said plot for running an out patient department (OPD) for poor patients, said Tiwari.
The state government put a stay on this agreement following the intense agitation staged by Tiwari and members of Jan-Arogya Abhiyan but vacated the stay, after oneand-a-half years, in April 2003. "We decided to move the High Court after the state government vacated the stay by filing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL). Following this, the High Court issued notices to the state government, PMC and Poona Hospital and the matter is subjudice since 2003," said Tiwari. But even though the High Court has asked for status-quo, the Poona Hospital razed the compound wall of the dispensary and started using it as a parking area, he alleged. "We have also appealed to President Pratibha Patil to look into the matter and dissuade the PMC from pushing the prime plot of the dispensary into private hands," said Tiwari. It has become increasingly difficult for the common man to bear the expenses of normal diagnostic tests. The PMC can at least start extending essential diagnostic services at this dispensary for the benefit of the common man, he added. Source:The Times Of India 17thJuly2008.
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