Hindustan Times (Lucknow)

Alongside mosque, a multi-specialty hospital

The hospital will be part of Indo-Islamic Centre Complex that will also include a community kitchen

- HT Correspond­ent letters@htlive.com

LUCKNOW: The hospital that will come up on the 5-acre land in Dhannipur village in Ayodhya along with the mosque will be a multi-specialty 200bed hospital with world class facilities, functionar­ies of the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation (IICF) said.

IICF is the trust set up by the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board (UPSCWB) for constructi­on of the mosque at Ayodhya on the land allotted by the UP government in compliance of the Supreme Court order.

The hospital will be part of Indo-Islamic Centre Complex in Ayodhya village that will also include a community kitchen and an Indo-Islamic

Research Centre. The research centre will have a museum and a library too.

Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation spokesman Athar Hussain said the maximum area of land would be allocated to the hospital, which will also be the largest public utility establishm­ent at the Indo-Islamic complex.

The name of the hospital, whose constructi­on is expected to start in next couple of months, is yet to be finalised. “We plan to develop a multispeci­alty hospital that would be equipped with the state of art facilities. The entire hospital would be establishe­d in two phases. In the first phase, the arrangemen­t for 100 beds would be made at the hospital while in the second phase 100 more beds would be added to it,” Hussain added.

Office bearers with the trust said the hospital would offer best treatment in cancer care, transplant­s, spine, heart, robotics, orthopaedi­cs, emergency and others. Officials said that hospital would help in serving the society and play a major role in bridging gap between the communitie­s.

On September 1, the trust had appointed a Lucknow based architect cum townplanne­r and a founder of dean faculty of Architectu­re Jamia Milia University, Delhi to design the mosque that would come up in Dhannipur village, Ayodhya in lieu of the Babri Masjid. Also, the trust has appointed noted Indian academicia­n and food critic Pushpesh Pant as consultant curator for the food archive—a section of the museum that would be a part of the Indo Islamic Centre Complex.

 ?? FILE PHOTO ?? Inspection of Mosque area underway.
FILE PHOTO Inspection of Mosque area underway.

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