Thursday March 6, 2008
RM26m district hospital
BANDAR Baru Air Itam in Penang will have a RM25.8mil district hospital before the end of next year.
Work on the six-storey hospital, which will have dental, physiotherapy and X-ray services, began last month and will take 18 months to complete, said Barisan Nasional candidate for Bukit Gelugor parliamentary seat, Datuk Koay Kar Huah, who visited the construction site in Jalan Angsana yesterday.
He said the project was initially slated to be a health clinic but the MCA appealed for a better healthcare centre for the constituency which resulted in the Health Ministry approving a type-two hospital.
“The project was initiated by incumbent Paya Terubong assemblyman Datuk Dr Loh Hock Hun who appealed several times to the Health Ministry before the hospital was approved,” he told a press conference yesterday.
The hospital, which will have a 5535.64 sq m built-up area, will also serve residents of nearby areas, including Paya Terubong, Rifle Range, Green Lane and Relau.
Koay said it was the MCA’s aim to get the best possible facilities for the people of all races in the constituency as well as to fight for the welfare and needs of constituents.
He said Bukit Gelugor, and Paya Terubong in particular, was developing at a very fast pace with many residential projects mushrooming over the past few years.
“If I am elected as MP, I promise voters that I will try my best to get allocations to set up more facilities at the hospital,” he added.
Barisan’s Paya Terubong candidate Koh Wan Leong said he would monitor the progress of the project closely and cooperate with Koay to ensure that the hospital was completed on time if he was given the mandate by the people to be their assemblyman.
The Bukit Gelugor MCA campaigning team briefly turned fire-fighters when they helped put out a small fire which started from a stove at an apartment in Block 20 of Taman Terubong Jaya.
Koay and Koh were doing door-to-door rounds there when the incident happened at 12.30pm.
Koay said that they heard people shouting for help a few levels below when they were campaigning on the 9th floor of the block.
“We rushed to the seventh floor where we saw thick smoke coming out from the unit’s kitchen window,” he said.
The team borrowed hose pipes from a neighbour and doused the burning stove through the open window before firemen arrived about five minutes later.
Unit owner Teoh Geok Lan, 42, who was informed of the fire by a neighbour, said she had forgotten to turn off the gas stove when she went to town.
“I am so lucky, I really can’t imagine what will happen to my apartment if it weren’t for them (MCA team),” she said gratefully.
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