BJP Government and BJP MPs from Delhi neglect Central Government hospitals in the Capital, with shortage of beds and medical staff compound getting treatment in these hospitals a difficult task—Arvinder Singh Lovely

  NEW DELHI/ YOGRAJ SHARMA/ AAJ KI  DELHI

BJP Government and BJP MPs from Delhi neglect Central Government hospitals in the Capital, with shortage of beds and medical staff compound getting treatment in these hospitals a difficult task—Arvinder Singh Lovely

 

NEW DELHI, April 10, 2024—Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Shri Arvinder Singh Lovely said that it was a matter of grave concern that the Central Government-funded hospitals in Delhi, including the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Safdarjung, Ram Manohar Lohia and Willingdon have been facing staff and bed shortages, and because of which thousands of patients have to wait for months together to get  treatments in these hospitals.

 

Shri Arvinder Singh Lovely said that when the Congress Government established major Central-funded hospitals in the national Capital, it was intended to attract the best medical talent, and to provide top class diagnostic and treatment facilities to patients from across the country. He said that sadly, in the past 10 years, the BJP Government and the Delhi MPs neglected the Central-funded hospitals in Delhi so much so that lakhs of people, who come to the Capital for quality treatment, mostly from the neighboring States, are forced to live on the pavements because most of these hospitals are short of beds and staff, making even getting admission to the OPD (Out Patients Department) a tedious task, with the touts fleecing the gullible patients outside these hospitals.

 

Shri Arvinder Singh Lovely said that this sorry state of Central Government hospitals in Delhi happened as the BJP Government’s focus was on misleading the people with false promises and assurances, while the seven BJP MPs from Delhi did nothing for the Capital, neither in the development of the city nor playing any role in improving the health infrastructure, the worst example of which was witnessed during the Covid-19 pandemic when Delhi hospital ran short of beds and medicines, including medical oxygen, leading to the death of many patients to the pandemic.

 

Shri Lovely said that it has become a routine exercise with the BJP to change its sitting MPs  after every five years during the Lok Sabha elections as the sitting MPs had  vanished from their Parliamentary constituencies after getting elected, which has been a recurring feature in the past two Lok Sabha elections.