BJP has put state’s healthcare services on ventilator: Hooda

Chandigarh, August 30

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Former Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda today said the BJP government in Haryana has put the state’s health services on ventilator. He said today there are neither medicines nor doctors in the hospitals.

“About 20,000 posts are lying vacant in health services. There is a shortage of 14,000 doctors in the state’s hospitals. About 94 per cent of specialist doctor posts are lying vacant in villages. Due to lack of staff and facilities, the lives of thousands of patients are being played with every day,” he said.

Short of 14K doctors

About 20,000 posts are lying vacant in health services. There is a shortage of 14,000 doctors in government hospitals. Due to lack of staff and facilities, the lives of thousands of patients are being played with every day. — Bhupinder Hooda, Congress Leader

Hooda said patients have to make rounds of hospitals for several days for laboratory tests, or are compelled to go to private laboratories. “According to the WHO guidelines, there should be one doctor for every 1,000 perons, but in Haryana there is one doctor for 2,035 persons. There should be one bed for 200 persons, but in the state there is one bed for 2,086 persons. Due to this, it is seen in many places that two or three patients are lying on one bed and deliveries are taking place on the floor. More than 1,100 out of 5,253 posts of Senior Medical Officer, Medical Officer, Dental Surgeon are lying vacant in the state,” he said.

The former Chief Minister said in 2014, the BJP had promised that it would build medical colleges in every district as soon as it came to power. “The reality is that in the past 10 years, not even a single new medical college announced by the BJP has been completed and started. Only the institutions built during the Congress tenure are providing health services to the people,” he pointed out.

He said the Congress had built a health university and six medical colleges during its tenure. “The first medical university of the state was also opened during the Congress rule. After the Independence, the first government medical college for women in the country was opened by Congress in Khanpur, Sonepat. The Congress had brought AIIMS-2 and the National Cancer Institute in Jhajjar. Today all these institutes are proving to be a boon for the people of Haryana and many states,” he said.