Harsimrat tags CM over report on health

Sumeer Singh

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, November 15

Union Cabinet Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal has shared a news report carried in Bathinda Tribune on her Twitter handle, pointing to the poor state of public health system, and has asked the state government to improve it.

The news report carried in the November 12 edition had highlighted that how, owing to the shortage of staff, the dialysis unit at the Civil Hospital has been lying locked for the past many days.

The report had also mentioned that there was no permanent doctor and lab technician at the unit. Hundreds of patients are forced to spend thousands of rupees to get dialysis done from private hospitals in the city.

In her tweet, Harsimrat has tagged the Twitter handle of Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and pointed to the ‘shortage of staff and unavailability of attendants’.

She has also remarked that “the government does not care a bit about the health of the people and was taking human life for granted”.

Notably, due to the shortage of staff, the dialysis unit of the Civil Hospital had been running sporadically for the past one year.

But after the lone senior lab technician, who was appointed at the unit, retired last month, the unit has been lying locked, as a result forcing patients requiring dialysis to get it done by spending Rs 6,000 to 8,000 at private hospitals.

A majority of patients visiting the Civil Hospital are from low socio-economic strata of society, who can’t afford to pay money to get dialysis done from private hospitals.