BJP Government and BJP MPs from Delhi neglect Central Government hospitals in the Capital, with shortage of beds and medical staff compound getting treatment in these hospitals a difficult task—Arvinder Singh Lovely

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BJP
Government and BJP MPs from Delhi neglect Central Government hospitals
in the Capital, with shortage of beds and medical staff compound getting
treatment in these hospitals a difficult task—Arvinder Singh Lovely

NEW DELHI, April 10, 2024—Delhi
Pradesh Congress Committee president Shri Arvinder Singh Lovely said
that it was a matter of grave concern that the Central Government-funded
hospitals in Delhi, including the All India Institute of Medical
Sciences, Safdarjung, Ram Manohar Lohia and Willingdon have been facing
staff and bed shortages, and because of which thousands of patients have
to wait for months together to get treatments in these hospitals.

Shri
Arvinder Singh Lovely said that when the Congress Government
established major Central-funded hospitals in the national Capital, it
was intended to attract the best medical talent, and to provide top
class diagnostic and treatment facilities to patients from across the
country. He said that sadly, in the past 10 years, the BJP Government
and the Delhi MPs neglected the Central-funded hospitals in Delhi so
much so that lakhs of people, who come to the Capital for quality
treatment, mostly from the neighboring States, are forced to live on the
pavements because most of these hospitals are short of beds and staff,
making even getting admission to the OPD (Out Patients Department) a
tedious task, with the touts fleecing the gullible patients outside
these hospitals.

Shri
Arvinder Singh Lovely said that this sorry state of Central Government
hospitals in Delhi happened as the BJP Government’s focus was on
misleading the people with false promises and assurances, while the
seven BJP MPs from Delhi did nothing for the Capital, neither in the
development of the city nor playing any role in improving the health
infrastructure, the worst example of which was witnessed during the
Covid-19 pandemic when Delhi hospital ran short of beds and medicines,
including medical oxygen, leading to the death of many patients to the
pandemic.

Shri
Lovely said that it has become a routine exercise with the BJP to
change its sitting MPs after every five years during the Lok Sabha
elections as the sitting MPs had vanished from their Parliamentary
constituencies after getting elected, which has been a recurring feature
in the past two Lok Sabha elections.