CHANDIGARH: The Leader of the Opposition (LoP), Partap Singh Bajwa on Thursday slammed the Aam Aadmi Party-led Punjab Government for causing irreparable damage to the health system of the state.
Citing a news report, Bajwa said that as many as six doctors posted in government hospitals have resigned in less than two months in Bathinda. They stated family reasons for quitting their positions. However, the news report referred to some sources and said that several doctors feel overburdened in the government system.
"Presenting a sorry state of affairs of the health system in Punjab, another news report says that against 121 sanctioned posts of doctors, half of them, 56, including posts of SMO, are lying vacant at Ferozepur and Zira subdivisions. Similarly, 85 of 117 medical officers posted lying vacant in the home district of the Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's home district Sangrur", Bajwa added.
Senior Congress Leader Bajwa said that due to the ongoing stalemate between the Union Health Ministry and the AAP government in Punjab Rs 650 has not been released by the Union government under the National Health Mission.
"Before the assembly election in Punjab in 2022, both AAP supremo and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann promised to provide better health facilities in the state. On the contrary, the health services have deteriorated ever since the AAP got hold of the power in Punjab. The health services in Punjab have fractured terribly under the AAP regime", Bajwa added.
Bajwa said that the broom party even guaranteed to provide medicines, operations, and tests free of cost. It also promised to make health cards for all citizens. When will this happen? Due to their bullheadedness, the AAP government destroyed the smoothly functioning Community Health Centres and rural dispensaries to convert them into Aam Aadmi Clinics.