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A pill botch-up is wrongly connected with medical centre (6,8)

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I believe the answer is:

public hospital

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'connected with medical centre' is the definition.
The answer and definition are different parts of speech. However, adjectives and past participle verbs can sometimes mean the same thing.

'a pill botch-up is wrongly' is the wordplay.
'wrongly' indicates anagramming the letters.
'a'+'pill'+'botch'+'up'+'is'='apillbotchupis'
'apillbotchupis' anagrammed gives 'PUBLIC HOSPITAL'.

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