The time has not been extended since the deadline expired in the middle of last December, the contract amount excluding VAT is Rs.
The building of the district hospital, which was contracted to be completed within two years, is still incomplete. The construction of physical infrastructure for the expansion of the 15-bed hospital to 50 is going on at a slow pace. Although the contract has been extended twice, the construction has not been completed.
has not been added since the build expired in mid-December. With the financial support of the Government of India, the construction work is being done under the Office of Intensive Urban and Building Construction, Rupandehi through PMC Consultant CSIR .
On June 18, 2078, Swachhand/Baniyan JV Makwanpur signed a contract for the construction of a building worth Rs. According to the contract, the work should be completed by June 17, 2080, said Arvind Chaudhary, engineer of the construction company.
"There is a lack of manpower and construction materials," Chowdhury said, "Now the goal is to construct the building by June." After the contract period was not completed, the deadline was extended for the first time by 6 months and the second time by 1 year. The contractor company has already submitted the documents to the office for the extension of the deadline that ended last December.
Now 25 workers are working on tile, wall, painting, electronic, aluminum plastering and plastering . According to the construction company, 50 workers are required to complete the work according to the target. The earthquake-resistant five-storey building will be handicap-friendly with lifts.
Consultant Engineer Satish Kumar Yadav said on behalf of the donor agency that they are monitoring the quality, safety and compliance of the building construction. ``There is no weakness in the work completed so far,'' he said, ``It is real that there is a problem in not getting the materials in Nepal.''
Raju Neupane, head of the project of the Intensive Urban and Building Construction Office Rupandehi, says that the work is being done at a slow pace despite repeated warnings. "The deadline has been extended twice, the work is at a slow pace," he said, "the deadline cannot be extended immediately." The deadline cannot be extended after the work is not completed within the period added by the 13th amendment of the procurement regulations. According to the
office, 85 percent of the physical work of the hospital building has been completed. According to this, 80 percent of the payment has been taken by the construction company. 21 crore 73 lakh 47 thousand rupees have been paid, according to the Office of Intensive Urban and Building Construction.
As the construction of the building is not completed, both the service receivers and the service providers have to suffer . Gulmi Hospital Development Committee Chairman Gopal Prasad Pandey said that service delivery from the narrow building is suffering. 'It is difficult for the patient to move around,' he said, 'the doctor also has a problem examining the patient.'
hospital currently has 125 manpower including physicians, gynaecologists, orthopedics and MDGP, including two dental and seven medical officers under the specialist services . 250 to 300 clients with health insurance take services from Gulmi Hospital daily.
