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By Express News ServiceKOCHI: Without any formal announcement or intimation to the public, the PV Swami (PVS) Memorial Hospital at Kaloor, Kochi, has shut down operations. Some of the hospital staff have been left in the lurch, with no inkling as to how their financial needs are going to be met. Over 50 of the staff members have been staging a sit-in protest at the hospital for the past three months. “There were over 500 staff at the hospital, including doctors, whose salaries have also been pending for over six months. Almost all doctors have sought jobs at other hospitals; they have also taken their staff along with them,” said Dr Mathew Philip, former medical director of PVS Hospital..