Mata Kaushalaya Hospital: Chief secretary summons meeting

Mata Kaushalaya Hospital Bachao Committee and PCMS Association had submitted a representation to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to seek his intervention to stop the encroachment on the land of the century-old women hospital, where a judicial-cum-administrative complex is being constructed. The Prime Minister had instructed the Punjab government to take appropriate action in the matter.

Both organisations had also demanded vacation of adjoining old Rajindra hospital complex which is allegedly in unlawful possession of the district administration. Even the district courts are functioning from the same premises. The hospital bachao committee had demanded a CBI probe into the matter.

Meanwhile, the hospital staff is working under protest and wore black badges for the second day today. The protest is now spreading to various other commercial and residential areas of the city, indicating growing public support in favour of the hospital, according to Dr M. S. Randhawa, convenor of Mata Kaushalaya Hospital Bachao Committee.