Seven Years, Still No Cure: New Talera Hospital’s Delay Strains Chinchwad’s Healthcare System
Talera Hospital’s new facility in Chinchwad remains unfinished even after seven years. Meant to serve mothers and children, delays in construction and basic setup continue to hinder full public healthcare access
Pune, May 03, 2025: It’s been seven years since the foundation for the new Talera Hospital was laid in Chinchwad with the hope of improving public healthcare — yet the structure remains incomplete and largely non-functional. What was once envisioned as a modern, multispecialty facility to serve general patients has now become a long-standing example of bureaucratic delays and missed deadlines.
In 2018, the old Talera Hospital building was demolished to pave the way for a new, upgraded hospital. The city’s population was growing rapidly, and the old hospital could no longer handle the daily inflow of 400–500 patients. A solution seemed at hand — the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) had promised a better-equipped replacement that would cater especially to maternal and child healthcare.
The situation initially looked promising. A parallel hospital, Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Hospital, was already built nearby and inaugurated in 2015 to help reduce the patient load. A plan was formed to transform the new Talera facility into a specialized maternity and pediatric hospital, with modern sonography services and dedicated gynecology departments.
By 2020, just when the construction was supposed to be finished, the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Similar to most infrastructure projects, the activity came to a standstill. However, even four years after the lockdowns were removed and normalcy had returned, progress in construction has been agonizingly slow.
As of now, only the Outpatient Department (OPD) and gynecology services are operational in the incomplete building. Basic work like painting, furniture setup, and electrical wiring is still pending. Despite repeated announcements and promises, the full-scale operation of this crucial healthcare hub remains a distant dream.
Local citizens and healthcare activists have begun to raise questions: Why has a hospital project, vital for thousands of underprivileged patients, been delayed for so long? When will it truly open its doors for emergency services, maternity care, and more?
The PCMC has assured that priority is being given to fully launching the maternal and child health wing. But on the ground, people continue to depend on limited facilities, travel long distances for specialized treatment, or wait endlessly in overcrowded hospitals nearby. In a city that’s expanding rapidly, the delay of such a key health infrastructure project doesn’t just reflect inefficiency — it puts lives at risk.
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