Kangan, Mar 6: The much-awaited Maternity-cum-Childcare Hospital (M&CCH) building in Kangan has been completed and awaiting its inauguration for last several months now.
Locals said that despite the hospital building being completed after a long time and inordinate delay, the inauguration of the hospital is awaited which has resulted in non utilisation of this vital healthcare facility in Kangan sub division. MLA Kangan Mian Mehar Ali recently flagged the delay in the hospital inauguration in the Legislative Assembly , causing hardships to people. Officials said Mian Mehar Ali accompanied by the Director of Health Services Kashmir Dr Jahangir Bakshi, MS SDH Kangan, and CMO Ganderbal, reviewed the healthcare facilities at Sub-District Hospital (SDH) Kangan few months back and hoped that within next 3 weeks the Mother and Child care hospital will be inaugurated and dedicated to people here, Mian Mehar had said.
Notably, the foundation stone for the 100-bed Maternity-cum-Childcare Hospital Kangan had been laid 11 years back during the then National Conference (NC)-Congress coalition government in 2014. The hospital, was envisioned to provide essential maternity and child care services to the region, reducing the need for residents to seek treatment in distant city hospitals. The functioning of the Maternity hospital at Kangan would ease rush of maternity patients from the area to Srinagar hospitals. Locals hailed the efforts of the MLA Kangan Mian Mehar for getting the hospital completed and expressed hope that the hospital will be inaugurated and made functional at an earliest.
