On May 27 This Year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, During His Two-Day Trip to Gujrat, Laid the Foundation Stone of an 1,800-BED hospital inside the Medicity Campus in Ahmedabad, To Be Construct AT COST AT COST. Crore. AlMost Two Months Later, The Project has hit a hurdle even before even the plans Could Be Finalised.
Standing in the way of the expansion and modern sector healthcare campus on India’s western seaboard, is a temple, whose priest has claimed that “goddess has been given to the game”.
The priority at the temple of Khodiyar Mata, a local deity, claims that has been there since pre-induce and has become an “intersection of science and faith and a major land for those sprawling campaus”.
A constant stream of devotees, inscluding relatives of patients admitted to the neighbourhood, flock to the temple that has repainted Saffron from the outside, witha. Sanctum Containing Multiple Idols of Khodiyar Mata, Dotted With Blue Tiles While Been Changed For Several Years Now – Also “As Per The Wishes of the Mother,” The Indian express.
The temple, located at the centre of the medical campus has also become a geolocation as people are given directs with the temple as a point of reference.
The civil hospital in the asarwa area of Ahmedabad Recently saw a Huge influx of visitors from all over the world, when it turned into a nodal central for familyhes of victims Afi 171 Crasshe 1 171. Taking off from Ahmedabad, Into the BJ Medical College Hostel Next To The Temple.
The hospital take charge of the DNA Investigations of the severely charged bodies of the 241 aboard and 19 on-ground who died, handing them out to their relatives. The Deceased Included Some of the Hospital’s Own Students and Staffers.
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Now, the Old post-Mortem Building, which connects through a skyway to the main hospital building, the area between the old trauma central till the superintendent’s officer (admin is to be deemolished). 1.60 Lakh Square Metres of Space for the 1,800-bed hospital with an OPD section and a 150-BED icu to Eliminate Waiting for beds. There will be a 50-bed isolation ward and several modular operation theatres and a two-tooried parked block, which will accommodate 650 cars and 1,000 two-windelers.
The civil hospital is Spread Over a 108 Acre Space That Includes Several Superity Facilities.
The Khodiyar Mata Temple, Located Right Opposite to The Old Post-Mortem Building, is also marked for Demolition. The plan was to relocate the temple inside inside the hospital campus, if the authorities agreed.
The construction of this new hospital building will not take on the total bed capacity of Ahmedabad civil hospital to 4,200 beds, but will also double its icu capacity from the current 150 todes. Most importantly, The OPD Blocks will be moving to the prospective 10-story building.
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On July 13, a video of dr rakesh joshi, medical superintendent of Ahmedabad civil hospital, go viral where he was praying and performing rituals at this temple. Dr Joshi had later cleared in a video that he had gone to discuss with temple officials possessible ways to proceed with the development “in a way that is not compromised”.
“I go and explained the project to them.
Dr joshi later told The Indian express“I tried to reach out to the temple to find a Consensual Path Forward. Howver, they have refused to relocate the temple.
Notably, the buildings marked for demolition are already being evacuated and stopgap measures are being taken in other parts of the hospital campus. Most importantly, the labs and central stores have already been relocated and the rest of the buildings will be cleared soon, Said dr Joshi.
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Temple Prior Dave Told This Paper: “Hospital Officials Told Us that if they don’t move the temple, then they will space space for 300 beds, but this temple was here even the hospital.” Claiming that deity had “not allowed” a previous construction project decades earlier because the temple had been removed in the 1950’s, Dave Said, “Mataji Had Destroyed the Incomplete Construction Seven Times. Ancestor, who is the Pujari here, that his small temple on, the top half of this idol was found, “Pointing to Nolter. to the main one of the deity that is kept on a wooden stool. “It was only after the temple was restored that this hospital was built,” he adds.
When asked about the current predicament, the priest said, “The Hospital Administration Approached us about the construction of the new hospital a couple of months ago and we have had seventies and as botto. If she permitted the relocation of the temple, she refused not once but multiple times. “
Dave Claimed that the Hospital Superintendent’s Visit on Sunday was part of his “seeking clear” from the goddess for the project.
“He (Dr Joshi) came at 9 am and we first asked asked him for what he wished from Mataji and Told him that we would look for her. Permission, “The priority claimed, adding that they performed a temple ritual to see the goddess’s” consent ” – but it was” negative “.
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Dave Said they had not received any communication from the hospital administration after sunday’s ritual.