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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
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No land, no building, but 87 staff! The bizarre story of Indore's 'paper hospital'

A proposed 100-bed civil hospital in Indore's Khajrana has turned into what critics are calling a "hospital on paper." Six years after it was announced, the facility has neither land nor a building—but it already has 87 sanctioned staff positions, with nearly 80 employees currently working at other government hospitals.

As per a report in the Times of India, the Madhya Pradesh government unveiled plans for the modern hospital six years ago and approved posts for doctors, nurses and paramedical staff even as authorities continued searching for a suitable plot of land. Construction, however, has never begun because the project is still waiting for government land.

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