After the bypass road, Kerala Congress (M), a prominent constituent of the ruling Left Democratic Front, is getting yet another development project in Pala named after its founder leader K.M. Mani. It will henceforth be known as K.M . Mani Memorial General Hospital, Pala .
Based on Pala municipality’s and the hospital managing committee’s recommendations, the Cabinet announced a decision to name the General Hospital here after the leader on Wednesday. Though these recommendations had been submitted at least three years ago, the proposal was revived recently on an intervention by Water Resources Minister Roshy Augustine.
Mr. Mani, in his capacity as legislator of Pala, had been instrumental in elevating the hospital, previously called Meenachil Taluk Hospital, to the status of General Hospital in 2004. He had allotted ₹9.75 crore from his asset development fund to establish a state-of-the-art diagnosis centre and gave an administrative sanction of ₹40 crore later for constructing its administrative and cath lab blocks.
