9 Ahmedabad hospitals sealed for occupancy clearance violations
Ahmedabad: Nine hospitals in Gujarat's Ahmedabad have been sealed by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation for operating without occupancy clearance and also failing to regularise the construction of their buildings as per the rules, said officials.
The AMC had recently issued notices to the hospitals that were functioning despite not having any Building Usage (BU) permission, the corporation said in a release.
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Through the notices, the AMC had asked them to either obtain BU permission or regularise the construction under the Gujarat Regularisation of Unauthorised Development Act (GRUDA), news agency PTI reported.
However, despite repeated verbal instructions, the owners of these nine hospitals failed to submit any evidence to prove that they had obtained these clearances, said the release.
As these hospitals continued to operate without any valid occupancy clearance, the AMC sealed them over public safety, it said.
While four of these medical facilities are in the south Bopal area, two each are located in Juhapura and Maktampura. One such hospital is in the Sarkhej area of the city.
In the coming days, AMC will act against other establishments, including multiplexes and educational institutions, running without BU permission or the ones that have not got clearance under GRUDA.
Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that in a shocking incident, a 29-year-old woman passed away during an illegal kidney removal at a hospital in Madanapalle, Annamayya district, Andhra Pradesh, exposing a suspected organ trade network across the state. Authorities have sealed the hospital and taken twelve people, including two doctors, into custody in connection with the case. According to the news reports, the victim, a resident of Buddapalem village in Anandapuram mandal, Visakhapatnam, was allegedly lured into selling her kidney for Rs 8 lakh.
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