Roads leading to hospitals to be decongested
HIGH TIME Acting on directives from ministry of urban development, LMC has prepared a blueprint for removing encroachments around hospitals
LUCKNOW: Encroachments around hospitals in the city will soon be removed. The Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) is ready with a plan to decongest the roads leading to hospitals to facilitate easy movement of patients.
LMC is almost ready with a blueprint for removing encroachments after it received directives from the ministry of urban development in the matter.
Municipal commissioner, Udairaj Singh said that LMC was directed to prepare a plan for removing encroachment around the King George’s medical University and other hospitals so that ambulances could easily move on the roads and patient deaths resulting from delay in treatment were avoided.
Areas around the KGMU, Balrampur hospital, Dufferin hospital and Shyama Prasad Mukherjee hospital always remain overcrowded. This often results in slow movement of traffic in these areas and is particularly harassing for patients who are in need of urgent medical attention. Often, ambulances carrying patients get caught in traffic jams in these localities.
“It’s essential to remove road encroachments around these main hospitals, so that patients don’t suffer,” asserted the municipal commissioner, adding, “Those encroaching need to understand that they are here not to cause deaths but to earn their daily bread. We will arrange for other spaces for them and ensure that they are not affected in any negative way.”
However, past encroachment drives by L MC in various parts of city don’t present a heartening picture. The drives have never stopped encroachers from coming back once the initiative is over. According to sources, in the past some local politicians in Chowk, Golaganj and Alambagh areas have pressurised LMC officials to not take action against encroachers.
Officials have even been threatened for refusing to follow their diktats.