Polakovic: Dispossessed Razsochy Land Owners Might Want Their Land Back

Bratislava, June 2 (TASR) - The project of Razsochy hospital is a sensitive topic to local inhabitants of Bratislava Lamac borough and if the project is really scrapped, there is the risk that original land owners, dispossessed by the state, will demand the return of their land, Lamac borough mayor Igor Polakovic told TASR on Sunday. Polakovic underlined that the land plots were taken away from their owners because of the hospital project. The mayor pointed out that the project is a sensitive topic for the Lamac inhabitants. "First they experienced the dispossession of their land, years of construction works on that land, the suspension of construction works, the updating of the original project, then a later decision to build the hospital at Patronka area instead, only to see that decision reversed and the project returned to Razsochy, followed by the demolishing of unfinished hospital, the preparation of a new project with a mind towards securing its financing from the EU, up to today's change in the decision to find a new location and build a different facility in our borough instead," he warned. Polakovic added that the Health Ministry has not informed the Lamac borough about the latest plan to change the location of the hospital again. "We've learned only from the media about the new intent to build the hospital in Ruzinov and the plan to construct the National Institute for Children Diseases in its place in Razsochy instead. That, of course, we see as unfortunate and unorthodox," he claimed. The mayor added that the Razsochy hospital project was in the final state of preparation when the Government decided to nix it this week. mf