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CPM to intensify stir for VIMS
Neglected by successive governments over the years, the Visakha Institute of Medical Sciences (VIMS) has now become a non-starter. The failure of the State government to allocate adequate funds to buy equipment for the hospital has ensured that the project remained a non-starter.
Visakhapatnam: Neglected by successive governments over the years, the Visakha Institute of Medical Sciences (VIMS) has now become a non-starter. The failure of the State government to allocate adequate funds to buy equipment for the hospital has ensured that the project remained a non-starter.
Hence, the Left parties led by the city unit of CPM have decided to intensify the State-wide stir to exert pressure on the government for the completion of Visakhapatnam Institute of Medical Sciences (VIMS).
The 48-hour hunger strike by the CPM for VIMS entered second day on Wednesday and several leaders from various political parties visited the striking camp and expressed their solidarity.
Member of Legislative Council and senior CPM leader MVVS Sharma, addressing the members, said that the government should strive for the completion of VIMS in the interest of north Andhra people.
As per the developments during the past two years, it seemed that the government was deliberately neglecting the opening of the hospital though the Chief Minister had announced that VIMS would be as good as NIMS of Hyderabad and provide specialised healthcare to the poor of north Andhra.
Sharma also reminded that while in Opposition, Chandrababu Naidu strongly opposed the privatisation of VIMS mooted by the then Chief Minster Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy, but after coming to power Naidu himself talking about PPP mode for running the hospital. All the like-minded parties would launch State-wide agitation from March 1 if the State government did not make any announcement on opening the hospital.
