Cong: Sealing hospitals will hit Covid patients

Ahmedabad: If the

AMC

seals hospitals that don’t have valid building-use (BU) permissions, problems will be created for many Covid patients, said Congress councillor Shahzad Pathan on Monday.

Pathan

is also the leader of the opposition in the AMC.In the AMC’s

general board

meeting held on Monday, Pathan said that the civic body is in a fix because of its own fault. He said the civic body cannot seal hospitals even though they operate without BU permissions because of the pandemic. He said the same civic body had allowed the construction of about 500 hospitals without checking whether they had BU permissions. Pathan also raised issues regarding sanitation, stray cattle menace, and the increasing cases of dog bites in the city. Criticizing the civic body for hiring private security guards for hospitals and the AMC headquarters, Pathan said that people get discouraged by the sight of bouncers at the gates of the civic body’s HQ.