Resistance growing to shifting of Erragadda chest hospital

Hyderabad, Feb 3, 2015: Telangana Chief Minister KCR's decision to shift the Chest Hospital at Erragadda to Vikarabad and in turn shift the state secretariat to the Chest Hospital campus has been attracting flak and meeting with resistance from all quarters. On Monday, Telangana YSRCP President and MP Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy held a demonstration in the hospital campus along with party activists, doctors and staff opposing the move and threatening to intensify the agitation if the decision is not dropped. On Tuesday, Telangana TDP leaders led by its president L.Ramana , called on the Governor and asked him to intervene in the manner and stop the shifting of the hospital and the Secretariat.

15 road thrusts to Erragadda Chest hospital

Even as the decision of the KCR Government to shift the hospital is vehemently opposed by several quarters, new issues of Vaasthu have cropped up with the Erragadda chest hospital. Several Vaasthu experts are of the opinion that the Erragadda chest hospital has 15 street thrusts ( Veedhi Soola or Potu) and is not fit to host the state secretariat, according to a report published in a local Telugu daily. The report said that Chief Minister KCR has decided to shift the present secretariat to the Erragadda chest hospital as its Vaasthu is not good with two street thrusts. "Because the present Secretariat has two street thrusts , KCR wanted to shift it. If that is the case,. Erragadda chest hospital has 15 street thrusts. Then how can he justify it?," the daily quoted the Vaasthu experts as having asked.