Jauramajra and Dhaliwal, both, are clueless to fix the problem
Chandigarh – Senior congress leader and Punjab’s leader of the opposition (LoP), Partap Singh Bajwa has put the Bhagwant Mann government on the mat for the state’s crumbling health care system especially in the rural areas.
Bajwa said nearly 600 rural dispensaries have not received vital medicines for the last 10 months & Punjab’s rural development and panchayat minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal seemed to have no clue about replenishing the supplies.
“ The lackadaisical attitude of the state’s rural development & panchayat department can be gauged from the fact that six months ago Rs. 10 crore was granted to the department specifically to purchase medicines for the rural dispensaries. However the department officials let the grant lapsed as they failed to purchase the vital medicines within the stipulated time period”, added Bajwa.
Bajwa revealed that the last two purchases of the medicines were made during the congress government. “ It has been nearly eight months now since the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government was in power. However the Bhagwant Mann government failed to make even a single purchase of the medicines for the rural dispensaries during this period”, added Bajwa.
Bajwa also blasted Punjab health & family welfare minister Chetan Singh Jauramajra for his utter failure to improve the crumbling health care system in the state.
This AAP government came to power riding on two major planks. One they promised to improve the school and higher education system in the state the other it claimed to overhaul the health care system.
While recent surveys conducted by none other than the union government showed the quality of school education was already showing an upward swing during the previous congress regime, the healthcare system is actually going from bad to worse.
In fact by not providing textbooks to their school students the AAP government was already compromising with the future of the young school students. And on the health front in order to promote mohalla clinics the AAP government was seriously jeopardizing the health care system, said Bajwa.
