No district hospital in Anand: Gujarat HC directs officials to submit steps taken
Ahmedabad: Expressing dismay over the absence of a civil hospital in Gujarat's Anand district despite the land being allotted years ago, the Gujarat High Court directed the secretaries of Gujarat health, urban housing and urban development departments to explain the steps and the time by which they would complete setting up the hospital.
The court comprising Chief Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice AJ Shastri issued the orders while hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed through advocate Vicky Mehta, which alleged that the civil hospital had not been established even though the land was already allotted for the hospital in 2016.
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The PIL further stated that the district was formed in 1997, and the district collector had allotted land to construct a hospital. However, the district does not have a hospital despite being 25 years since it was established, observed the petition.
The counsel for the government observed that the land allotted for the civil hospital is in a civil dispute and they are in the process of identifying new land.
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