Today Congress leaders and party men along with MLA Gyasuddin Sheikh, MLA Imran Khedawala, Corporator Dinesh Sharma and former Corporator Badduruddin Sheikh met Ahmedabad Mayor Bijal Patel and gave a memorandum on preventing closure of Old VS Hospital (Vadilal Sarabhai Hospital).
Congress leaders had heated exchanged with Mayor Patel. They blamed of closing Old VS Hospital for the sake of new corporate style VS Hospital built at an expense of Rs 750 crores.
Congress leaders have been protesting against new VS Hospital ever since 2008. They further added that from old VS Hospital , ICU facility of Surgery and Medicine Ward was shifted to new VS Hospital. All Super Specialist doctors have been transferred to to new VS Hospital from old VS hospital.
BJP government is eyeing on new VS Hospital and wants to take over NHL medical college allied with VS Hospital. trustrees of Sheth Vadilal Sarabhai General Hospital were kept away from the hospital management and administration. In 2008, MET Medical Education Trust was formed.
Every year 25,000 surgeries are carried out in VS Hospital with dealy 1,600 patients getting cured in the hospital.
VS hospital is a second famous general hospital meant for poor after Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad city, whose future is in dark now.
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