Udupi, Oct 30: Activists, who are opposing the privatization of a government hospital in Udupi, on Sunday staged a hunger strike, here, to register their protest against foundation stone laying for the super-specialty hospital.
Bharatiya Janata Party also have strongly condemned the government's decision to hand over the land of maternity and paediatric hospital falling under the district hospital at Ajjarkad to NRI business tycoon BR Shetty for the construction of hospital in memory of latter's mother.
The land was donated to the government decades ago by Late Haji Abdullah Kasim Saheb Bahadur, a well known philanthropist and founder of the Corporation Bank, for the construction of a state-run hospital.
Former Udupi MLA Raghupati Bhat said that the new hospital project is not for public support or for charity. “It is completely for business reasons. Before laying the foundation stone, the state government is supposed to have a meeting with MLC, MP, CMC and public of Udupi,” he said adding that the people in Bengaluru cannot take the decision.
“There's no transparency in the project permission. The government did not call for global tenders," he said.
“Don't hand over the 200-bed hospital to a private party. Let BR Shetty have control of the 400 bed multi-specialty hospital and let the government handle the charity hospital. If this is done, we have no issue with it,” he said.
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B.R Shetty's intention to help the downtrodden people of Udupi District is good but the question is naming the hospital as Kusamma Shetty Haji Abdullah is utter nonsense. Why philanthropists name is given to Govt. Hospital? Thank God they retain the original name, If you make a charity from right hand then left hand should not know about the charity. Publicity!.
B R Shetty runs buniness with Over draft fron banks. Let him buy the properly on his own, not the one donated to govermnet for treamnet of poors.
BR Shetty might be having a lot of money. it does not make sense to a person like him to go with free and cheap land that too this land has been donated for good cause. Government hospital could be a best option than going with donating the donated land to BR....he will charge exorbitant rate for poor and riches even if he built hospital in that place...
Why BR Shetty getting free land from Govrnment if he start charity hospital. Let him purchase land from private people as legal. Utterly monkey business. Fooling to people and government. He is business tycoon. Government should rethink about the decision.
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