This hospital was promoted by Dr. Ramkumar, M.S., M.N.A.M.S., now deceased. It was started as a private limited company in a backward area like Theni, for serving the rural people. It's vision was 'care & concern'. Some of us put belief and money in the project under the good Doctor; who was a gold medalist from the Madurai medical college.
His ambitious project was cut short by lack of patients. While the outpatient population was more, the inpatient population was a mere trickle. This could not sustain the hospital. The rural mass upon seeing the sheer structure of the building, considered it to be a 'corporate hospital' and dismissed it as 'costly'. To draw crowd, the good Doctor brought in one husband and wife duo from Karnataka.
The Husband was an M.D., while the Wife was and Gynaecologist with an M.S. Everything was running nicely until, the wife got greedy. She thought that, she is been paid pittance and that she is in contract, wanted a bigger piece of the cake. The good doctor even agreed to share ratio in the proceeds from both I/P and O/P.
The fantastic part was, the wife did not believe her mentor and guru Dr. Ramkumar and started visiting and sitting near the billing section to see the flow of billing and the percentage. She even insisted on buying an expensive piece of equipment for the gynae department, so that, she stays put at the hospital premises. The good doctor put in to all of her demands and inspite of that, one fine day, she upped the ante left in a huff along with her hubby.
She claimed that the good doctor owed her money, she was not paid salary, the share promised to her was not there and all nonsense to others. This spoiled the reputation of the institution. The duo started their own clinic in the Madurai road area in Theni. They started minting money from then on and left to a newly constructed and sprawling campus called Gayathree medical centre at the suburbs of Theni.
The good doctor, who originally recruited them was a surgeon, that too a ganstro-enterologist, with a fine reputation with friends, colleagues, society and relatives. He was struggling to make ends meet after the departure of the duo mentioned above. He could not even cope with the basic bills for the hospital and resorted to borrowing.
The borrowings got worse, began to eat away into the revenue of the hopital. He even had to borrow for his children's education, electricity bills, staff salary and even for the basic amenities. Good technicians need not be good administrators. Dr. Asokan of Archana Textiles is a living example and the good doctor became another example. The bank people who undertook the hospital, threatened with a law suit in the mean time. The doctor had borrow even more for litigation.
All these problems took its toll on the good doctor and he died suddenly in the year 2009 of cardiac arrest.
The share holders were paid half of the original value of the share amount they had invested. The creditors, who provided proof, were pacified, some were paid and some were promised to be paid. The hospital, in the mean time, was sold to Thol Thiruma of 'viduthalai sirutthaigal' for a sum of Rs.3.46 crores, through a Rafique of Subham Real Estate, Theni.
Where the amount has gone no body knows. The people who have lent to the good doctor, have been thrown to the dogs, they are not getting any answers or money. Some have been waiting for over a period of 10 years, like the writer of this blog; for the money due to them.
His ambitious project was cut short by lack of patients. While the outpatient population was more, the inpatient population was a mere trickle. This could not sustain the hospital. The rural mass upon seeing the sheer structure of the building, considered it to be a 'corporate hospital' and dismissed it as 'costly'. To draw crowd, the good Doctor brought in one husband and wife duo from Karnataka.
The Husband was an M.D., while the Wife was and Gynaecologist with an M.S. Everything was running nicely until, the wife got greedy. She thought that, she is been paid pittance and that she is in contract, wanted a bigger piece of the cake. The good doctor even agreed to share ratio in the proceeds from both I/P and O/P.
The fantastic part was, the wife did not believe her mentor and guru Dr. Ramkumar and started visiting and sitting near the billing section to see the flow of billing and the percentage. She even insisted on buying an expensive piece of equipment for the gynae department, so that, she stays put at the hospital premises. The good doctor put in to all of her demands and inspite of that, one fine day, she upped the ante left in a huff along with her hubby.
She claimed that the good doctor owed her money, she was not paid salary, the share promised to her was not there and all nonsense to others. This spoiled the reputation of the institution. The duo started their own clinic in the Madurai road area in Theni. They started minting money from then on and left to a newly constructed and sprawling campus called Gayathree medical centre at the suburbs of Theni.
The good doctor, who originally recruited them was a surgeon, that too a ganstro-enterologist, with a fine reputation with friends, colleagues, society and relatives. He was struggling to make ends meet after the departure of the duo mentioned above. He could not even cope with the basic bills for the hospital and resorted to borrowing.
The borrowings got worse, began to eat away into the revenue of the hopital. He even had to borrow for his children's education, electricity bills, staff salary and even for the basic amenities. Good technicians need not be good administrators. Dr. Asokan of Archana Textiles is a living example and the good doctor became another example. The bank people who undertook the hospital, threatened with a law suit in the mean time. The doctor had borrow even more for litigation.
All these problems took its toll on the good doctor and he died suddenly in the year 2009 of cardiac arrest.
The share holders were paid half of the original value of the share amount they had invested. The creditors, who provided proof, were pacified, some were paid and some were promised to be paid. The hospital, in the mean time, was sold to Thol Thiruma of 'viduthalai sirutthaigal' for a sum of Rs.3.46 crores, through a Rafique of Subham Real Estate, Theni.
Where the amount has gone no body knows. The people who have lent to the good doctor, have been thrown to the dogs, they are not getting any answers or money. Some have been waiting for over a period of 10 years, like the writer of this blog; for the money due to them.
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