Ambernath: During the first wave of Corona, all government and private hospitals from Ambernath to Mumbai were filled with patients. Then in order to treat the positive patients of the city in the city itself, the Ambernath Municipal Administration started the COVID Hospital in a closed dental college with public cooperation with the permission of the district administration. But now Ambernath Municipality has to pay a heavy price for building COVID Hospital.
Taking possession of the hospital space without taking the approval of the owner of the dental hospital building and vandalizing the building as per its convenience, ie, causing damage to the building and paying rent for two years for the building which has been in use for two years. The Dental College had filed a public interest litigation in the High Court on the demand of In this case, the court has ordered the college owner to pay two years rent and damages of Rs 4 crore 10 lakh in this way. Due to which there has been a stir in the municipal administration.
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In March 2020, there was no health system of Ambernath Municipality in a global crisis like Corona. Therefore, following the orders of the district administration, Ambernath Municipality established a 700-bed COVID Hospital in the said college. In which facilities like ICU, ventilator, oxygen tank and plant have been made available for the patients. The doctors, nurses, other staff appointed for this hospital treated about 8 thousand COVID patients in two waves of corona. Municipality-run COVID Hospital provided people with the facility of treatment of corona in their own city.
High court reprimanded the municipality administration on the issue of spending lakhs unnecessarily
However, in the process of transfer while using the building of Dental COVID Hospital, the municipality is facing difficulties due to technical dispute between the original owner of the land and the owner of the building. In this case the owner of the dental college building had claimed Rs 7.5 crore in rent for using the dental college building for the COVID hospital. The hearing of this case went on continuously, according to the information, the High Court has
Terming the work done on the walls of the shed, hospital, road, garden as unnecessary, reprimanded the municipal administration for spending lakhs on it. After hearing the arguments of the defense and the petitioner, the Mumbai High Court ordered the Ambernath Municipality to pay Rs.