9/15/2006

SOME DREAMS ARE TOO BEAUTIFUL TO COME TRUE.

Let us be very clear about this. Incompetent builders of hospitals who do not complete and handover the buildings on time are Murderers. Their inability to deliver on the expected date would mean one thing - that lives were lost when it could have been saved if the projects had been completed on time.
The Minister of Health has rightly commented that those contractors who were involved in the delays should not be given future hospital projects. But why is this ban confined to only hospitals? Are schools, police or army quarters and other government buildings any less important?
Since transparency is the watchword for the UMNO run government, the Warong kopi would hazard to dream that the names of these undeserving but well-connected companies and their directors
be published, documented and officially banned from all future government projects.
However in reply to my wishful thinking, my "kakis" at the warong-kopi have borrowed a line from the television series Desperate Housewives -- “Some dreams are too beautiful to come true”

Inept builders caused delays 22 hospitals delivered late, says Chua

Incompetent building contractors have been blamed for delays in the completion of 22 government hospitals under the 8th Malaysia Plan.
Health Minister Datuk Dr Chua Soi Lek said these hospitals were completed between a month and three years behind schedule.
Dr Chua said that to ensure delays would not recur, future hospital projects would only be offered to qualified contractors through tenders. Source

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