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'Needs to do more': Thrikkakara Coop Hosp rapped for straying from vision
The New Indian Express Thiruvananthapuram
|June 17, 2025
WHEN the Thrikkakara Municipal Co-operative Hospital was launched on June 13, 1999, the goal was clear—offer affordable treatment to local residents, especially those priced out of the booming private healthcare system.
WHEN the Thrikkakara Municipal Co-operative Hospital was launched on June 13, 1999, the goal was clear—offer affordable treatment to local residents, especially those priced out of the booming private healthcare system. Now, 27 years on, the hospital stands as the only one in Kerala established under the People's Plan project of a local body. But has it delivered on the cooperative vision it promised?
This story is from the June 17, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Thiruvananthapuram.
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