Tamil Nadu Health and Family Welfare Minister Ma. Subramanian on Saturday said the National Institute of Ageing (NIA), constructed around two years ago on the King Institute of Preventive Medicine campus in Guindy, is of poor quality.
Raising concerns primarily over the quality of plastering, he said the Public Works Department (PWD) was asked to study the building and submit a report on its structural stability.
The building was constructed during the AIADMK government at a cost of ₹151.17 crore. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was temporarily made into a full-fledged COVID-19 hospital. The DMK government announced that with the number of cases coming down, it planned to convert it back to the National Institute of Ageing.
