Karnataka Govt takes over 200-bedded Udupi Mother and Child hospital
Udupi: Due to financial difficulties, NRI Businessman Dr. Bhavaguttu Raghuram Shetty on Wednesday handed over the Koosamma Shambhu Shetty Memorial Haji Abdullah Mother and Child Hospital in Udupi to the Karnataka government.
As per The Hans India report, Dr. Shetty took over the hospital, with the intention to develop it. However, his enterprises in Abu Dabhi ran into financial difficulties and incurred heavy losses, which left the Shetty family unable to foot the bill for the hospital's development.
In a letter written to the Government, B.R Shetty expressed his inability to run the hospital as hospital affairs and staff's payments were in disorder.
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While speaking with The Hindu, Udupi MLA K. Raghupati Bhat on Thursday said staff and personnel of the 200-bed hospital need not worry and assured that the services will be continued. The government take-over process will begin soon and the government has sanctioned ₹9.83 crores annually for maintenance as well as 103 additional staff will be recruited soon.
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