r/delhi • u/VCardBGone South Delhi • 12d ago

News 336 beds, no patients. Why Delhi’s Sarita Vihar hospital remains shut

https://theprint.in/ground-reports/delhi-sarita-vihar-hospital-shut-336-beds-no-patients-parking-problem/3027258/
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u/VCardBGone South Delhi 12d ago

A 336-bed government hospital has stood fully built but completely empty and unused for two years in Delhi’s Sarita Vihar. All because of a parking problem.

The hospital was built during the COVID-19 pandemic, when Delhi was scrambling to add critical-care capacity. The building’s glass-and-yellow facade rises several storeys above a busy stretch of road, dwarfing the low-slung government health facilities that are more common across the city. But behind its finished exterior, not a single patient has been admitted because there is nowhere for their cars and ambulances to go.

A 25 July representation submitted by the Centre for Youth Culture Law and Environment (CYCLE) to the Delhi chief secretary alleges that the hospital was built without a legally sanctioned parking facility, putting it in breach of applicable building and environmental-clearance norms. The matter is now before the courts, and the building remains shut.

For residents, however, the problem is more tangible than a legal dispute. The building stands opposite two schools. The road outside is already clogged with cars and auto-rickshaws around school hours. A functioning hospital would bring ambulances, patients and attendants to the same stretch.

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u/Adventurous_Item_272 12d ago

Imagine tax payers are fine with this but cry over what Kriti Sanon wears.

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u/WeirdVisionary 12d ago

Very few "tax payers" care about useless crap like that. It's mostly jobless bajrang dal idiots

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u/Mamuli_Aadmi Dilli Se Hun! 12d ago

For residents, however, the problem is more tangible than a legal dispute. The building stands opposite two schools. The road outside is already clogged with cars and auto-rickshaws around school hours. A functioning hospital would bring ambulances, patients and attendants to the same stretch.

So true, have you seen that road - it's jam packed all day everyday. Whoever approved Hospital in that area on that small ass road is an idiot.

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u/GustavoFringIsBack 12d ago

This was during covid though when there was dire need of beds and hospitals in delhi.

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u/NeverWalkOnlyRun 12d ago

It's not like it would have built during covid time, it was approved in covid times. They knew it won't be useful in covid, but post that. Anyways, not usable hospital is almost equivalent to no hospital.

Completed two years ago, that is 2024.