Leon (left) and other Sri Aman folks (from right) Aning, Brayun Unyo and Jais Agas point at the signboard that indicates that Phase I was supposed to be completed in 2013.
KUCHING: Though it has been nearly three years after it was announced, work on the proposed new hospital in Sri Aman has not started.
DAP Sri Aman chief Leon Jimat Donald, who visited the site of the new hospital recently, was shocked to find nothing had changed ever since the project’s announcement.
“The site is apparently abandoned, judging by the condition of the gate into the area that has collapsed and the signage nearly covered by crawling vines.
“It is indeed an extremely painful wait for the people of Sri Aman yet again; the dream of a new modern hospital to service and care for them,” said Leon, who is also vice chairman of DAP Sarawak.
He wondered how much longer the people of Sri Aman had to wait for the new hospital to be built. The present hospital, which had been operating since 1959, can no longer cope with current demands.
The medical workers, he claimed, were overworked as the current hospital had very old facilities.
“Promises upon promises seem to be heaped upon the people of Sri Aman, yet we are ignored yet again when the pleas for a new hospital are apparently ignored.”
He claimed the elected representatives in Sri Aman seemed to be doing nothing about this apparent problem.
The new hospital is one of the projects announced during the walkabout by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak in 2011.
Based on media reports, the RM200 million project was to be implemented in two phases and scheduled to be completed by October 2016.