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<drop_initial>While respective authorities departments conflict for abstraction and often run from rented premises, residents and activists person raised interest implicit the underutilisation of 2 authorities infirmary campuses on the GST Road successful Tambaram and Chromepet.
The Government Leprosy Rehabilitation Promotion Unit successful Tambaram, adjacent the Madras Export Processing Zone (MEPZ), has been functioning for implicit 3 decades.
The multi-storeyed facility, dispersed crossed a ample campus, caters to patients from the neighbouring districts. However, a sojourn to the premises indicates that occupancy remains low, with less than 10 inmates astatine a time, though officials accidental determination are “13 to 15 inmates”.
Senior societal activistic Santhanam questioned the usage of specified a ample installation successful a premier locality.
“If the fig of patients is low, they tin beryllium shifted to different centre. The abstraction tin past beryllium utilized for exigency wellness services oregon different authorities needs,” helium said, adding that the infirmary was not intelligibly disposable from the arterial road.
Officials accidental immoderate inmates measurement retired for banking oregon pension-related needs, though clarity connected ceremonial procedures governing specified question remains limited.
Long-term patients said they occasionally near the premises for idiosyncratic needs aft making entries successful the register.
Medical Superintendent Noor Shahitha said the infirmary had astir 13 to 15 patients, with astatine slightest 2 doctors connected work daily, supported by nurses and different staff.
She added that lone 1 of the 3 floors remained unused, portion the others were earmarked for antheral and pistillate wards. Security, she said, was monitored by the patrol police.
Ms. Shahitha added that patients were admitted not lone from Chennai, but besides from districts specified arsenic Tiruvallur, Chengalpattu, and Tiruvannamalai.
Vacant plot
The aged Government Hospital successful Chromepet, adjacent the MIT Flyover, remains mostly vacant aft services were shifted to a adjacent modernised installation past August.
The aged Government Hospital premises successful Chromepet, which remains mostly vacant aft services were shifted to a caller installation nearby. Photo: T. Arvind
At present, lone a dental assemblage infirmary operates connected the campus.
On the utilisation of abstraction astatine the Tambaram Leprosy Rehabilitation Promotion Unit, Dr. Malarvizhi, Joint Director of Health Services, Chengalpattu, said immoderate determination connected shifting inmates oregon repurposing abstraction would necessitate higher-level approval, though discussions were nether way.
Renovation successful progress
Referring to the aged Government Hospital premises successful Chromepet, she said the buildings were being renovated to location an Emergency Care and Recovery Centre for persons with intelligence unwellness and a one-stop centre for persons with disabilities. A connection for a paramedical hostel is besides nether consideration.
Residents and activists stressed the request for timely and effectual utilisation of these nationalist assets, arsenic the Pallavaram, Chromepet, and Tambaram regions proceed to expand.
