Kohima, Oct 4 (NEPS): Nagaland Minister for Health and Family Welfare and Excise, Dr TM Lotha said the State Government would “terminate the contract with the Sir Edward Dunlop Hospitals Ltd” at the earliest after the latter had violated the terms of the contract with the Government with regard to the modernization of the Naga Hospital Kohima.
Explaining the position of the Government in the wake of the Kohima Village Women Organization’s recent letter addressed to Chief Minister and also to him demanding for the immediate termination of the contract with the Sir Edward Dunlop Hospitals Ltd, the Minister said the Cabinet Sub-Committee had already authorized the State’s Advocate General P Gopal to immediately initiate necessary steps to serve a “termination notice of the contract” to the company.
Dr Lotha further disclosed that the Advocate General had already started consulting senior lawyers to take up the matter at the earliest and serve “termination notice of the contract” to Shawkat Singh, the main representative of the Sir Edward Dunlop Hospitals Ltd.
Exuding confidence that the termination notice of the contract would be served to the company sooner than later, the Minister appealed to the publics specially Kohima Village Women Organization to be patient in waiting the outcome of the case.
