Myagdi. The 10-bed municipal hospital building in Mangala Rural Municipality has become abandoned. Ombuddha International Construction had taken the contract for Rs 91 million in Ashar 2078 BS to complete it within two years.
Pema Adhikari Chhetri, vice-chairman of the rural municipality, said that there has been no physical progress in the under-construction building in Mangala-5 Hadevir for the last one year. ‘Despite the request made to the construction contractor who had sloped the building to the ground floor, they have refused to return to work,’ he said, ‘The hospital has become abandoned due to the construction contractor’s delay.’
According to Chhetri, only about 10 percent physical progress has been made so far. The building, which will be built on an area of 1,124.64 square meters, will have 35 rooms. He informed that the building, which includes emergency, indoor, outdoor, laboratory, medicine storage, administration, and accommodation for doctors and health workers, will be disability-friendly and earthquake-resistant.
After the agreement, the process of confiscating the deposit of the contractor who had lost contact after managing the land in the initial stage, terminating the contract and blacklisting him was initiated. The rural municipality has stated that the process of action has been initiated again after the contractor returned to work in Mangsir 2080 BS and did not continue the work.
In accordance with the federal government’s policy of operating a basic hospital at every local level, Mangala Rural Municipality Chairman Sat Prasad Roka laid the foundation stone of the building in Poush 2077 BS. Locals have provided six ropanis of land for the construction of the building.
The municipal-level hospital building built at a cost of Rs 80 million in Dowa, Annapurna Rural Municipality-1 of Myagdi has been turned into a shambles due to lack of doctors and equipment. The construction of a five-bed hospital building in Takam, Dhawalagiri Rural Municipality is progressing slowly.
The hospital building construction process has not been able to move forward in Raghuganga Rural Municipality due to a location dispute. Malika Rural Municipality has upgraded Darwang Primary Health Center to a basic hospital. A 50-bed provincial Beni Hospital has been built and is operational in Beni Municipality, the district headquarters.
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