BJP workers today held a demonstration against a move by the Uttar Pradesh government to convert the district hospital at Sector 30 here into a childcare institute.
Led by former party MLA Nawab Singh Nagar, a few hundred BJP workers assembled for the protest at the district hospital in Sector 30.
The protesters dispersed after submitting a memorandum to Sub-Divisional Magistrate Rajesh Kumar Yadav addressed to Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.
The protesters said that, during the previous BSP government in the state, the district hospital was upgraded at a cost of over Rs 600 crore with a view to turning it into a 300-bed super-speciality facility.
While 80 beds were functioning, the remaining 220 beds had been earmarked for a trauma centre and super speciality hospital. A heart treatment cath lab, too, had been planned.
But, when Samajwadi Party came to power in the state, it was announced that the said Sector 30 hospital would be converted into a child institute while a new district hospital would be set up at Sector 39.
The child institute was to have been inaugurated on August 15 but that was postponed due to some technical delays.
"We have demanded that the state government should develop the child institute at Sector 39 and open the super speciality hospital here, as had been planned by the Mayawati government.
"The super speciality hospital will help the residents here," Nagar said, adding that, "the district hospital should remain at the present site".
