New Delhi: Describing previous AAP government’s health model and hospitals as “sick”, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Monday said that CAG findings on health department’s mismanagement, distribution of fake drugs, wastage of public money and shortage of doctors reconfirm what the BJP has been claiming.
Concluding the discussion on report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on Performance Audit on ‘Public Health Infrastructure & Management of Health services’, CM Gupta said the wrongdoings can be summed up by saying, “Fake medicines were given to patients, and real payments were made in the name of fake patients.”
CM Gupta trained her guns on the previous AAP government’s and said, “Only corruption was perpetrated over the past 10 years in the name of health model.”
She promised to work tirelessly and improve the condition of hospitals and the health department that had suffered a lot under the AAP government.
“We are working tirelessly to rid each department of debt and all our ministers and legislators will deliver all the promises made by us,” she said.
CM Gupta hit out at the previous AAP government for making city hospitals sick and using ghost patients for misappropriating funds, while failing to fill vacancies of doctors and nurses.
“The issue is not that of under-utilisation of Budget, the issue is not of inadequate addition of beds or drug shortage but the issue is that of harassment that the patients faced and the ill-treatment they faced,” she said.
She criticised the Mohalla Clinic scheme of the AAP government saying, “Everything related to Mohalla Clinics was fake – medicine, patients, staff and test – but only one thing was real and that was payment and wastage of public money.”
She said corruption and theft in all welfare schemes had become a habit of the AAP government. “They even stole the social media handle of the CMO. We were forced to file a complaint against them.”
The Opposition members walked out of the House, demanding payment of Rs 2,500 per month to women, as she enlisted failures of the AAP government and highlighted that 234 posts of duty medical officers were vacant, over 2,000 nursing posts were vacant and 2,796 posts of paramedic posts were vacant. (IANS)
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