Perfect Health Care Services, the management of the proposed super-specialty hospital at Edakkad in Kozhikode, has alleged that there had been serious damage of property at the site of the hospital during a public march taken out by the Punathilthazham Puthanvayal Samrakshana Samithi against the hospital on Monday.
P.K. Ahamed, chairman of P.K. Group of Industries that owns Perfect Health Care Services, said in a press release that some protesters entered the compound from the rear side to demolish the compound wall and damage vehicles parked there even as the agitation was going on in full swing in front of the compound gate and the police were in full attendance.
The management alleged that two mobile cranes, a bobcat, a Hitachi poclain, and two generators were damaged in the attack.
Complaint filedA complaint has been filed with the City Police Commissioner, the Circle Inspector of Nadakkavu, and sub-inspector of Elathur police station, the release said. The hospital had received all statutory clearances such as those of the Chief Town Planner, State Environment Impact Assessment Authority of Kerala, Kerala State Pollution Control board, Department of Environment and Climate Change, Kozhikode Corporation, Chief Engineer of Irrigation projects, and the Fire and Rescue Services.
The management alleged that the protests were being taken out by people with vested interests.
Mr. Ahamed said that most residents of the locality had welcomed the project and that those engaged in the protests were mostly outsiders.
‘Peaceful protest’Meanwhile, chairman of the protest committee Sudesh Kumar maintained that the committee had no role in the attack and that they had conducted a peaceful march.
He challenged Mr. Ahamed to prove that anyone of those who had been staging protest for the past 130 days was not a resident of the region.
“It was simple courtesy to get an NOC from the local residents before setting out on a project, but they [hospital management] did not do that”, he said.
