Strong protests from various quarters notwithstanding, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao was bent upon going ahead with the shifting of the Osmania General Hospital.
Even as the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage warned that it will take legal action to ensure protection of nearly a century-old building of Osmania General Hospital in Hyderabad, the State Government continues to drop the hints that the plans to demolish the beautiful structure of Nizam era were not scrapped.
All the efforts by the heritage conservation activists and others opposed to the demolition to seek an audience with the Chief Minister proved futile. Office-bearers of the local chapter of INTACH as well as former doctors of Osmania Hospital including the former superintendent Gopal Kishan have sent letters to the CMO seeking an appointment with the Chief Minister but it was not granted. Sources said that the Chief Minister was very unhappy with the growing opposition to his grand plans of razing the Osmania hospital and constructing new multi-storied building in its place and wanted the officials to comply with his plans.
Meanwhile, officials of the health and medical education department and the OGH were scouting for the suitable alternatives to shift the patients from Osmania at the earliest.
