India, July 4 -- In a striking example of bureaucratic dysfunction, a government hospital in Madhya Pradesh has doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians and pharmacists on its rolls-and continues to receive official transfer postings-despite not existing on the ground.

Khajrana Civil Hospital in Indore, approved by the state government in 2020, has neither a building nor allotted land.

The latest such order, dated June 15, 2026, transferred a laboratory technician to the hospital, which has never treated a single patient.

Hospital exists only on paper

The Madhya Pradesh government approved the establishment of a 100-bed civil hospital in Khajrana on June 23, 2020, to cater to one of Indore's fastest-growing and most densely populated r...