Patient not attended to, SAD MLA visits Civil Hospital

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, December 16

Having received a complaint from the family of a patient from Kangniwal village, falling in SAD MLA Pawan Tinu’s Adampur constituency, that doctors were not attending to her since last night, the MLA reached the local Civil Hospital this morning.

Tinu said a patient, Parminder Kaur, who had come for the delivery of her baby and was facing some serious complications was not being attended to.

“It was after I reached there that the doctors arrived and the nursing staff began attending to her. The patient was being told to shift to Amritsar, which she was not willing to. I asked doctors to provide her care in Jalandhar itself after which they agreed and delivered her baby too,” the MLA said.

The MLA said patient care had increasingly become an issue in government hospitals of the state.

“The government has done nothing to check corruption in various departments. I, being an elected representative of the public, wanted to raise issues, including problems in farmers’ loan-waiver scheme, non-agricultural co-operative small loans, pending amount of DA installments in salary, implementation of the 6th pay commission, law and order situation, newly-built ITI lying closed in Adampur, heavy examination fee imposed on all government schools students, delay in start of unemployment allowance, slow pace of work of the flyover project on the Jalandhar-Hoshiarpur road, nearly Rs 1,100 crore pending in the Shagun scheme, petrol-diesel price difference between Chandigarh and Punjab in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha. But the government kept the session so short so that none of these issues could be raked up,” he said.