The Patel Yuba Sangha, the youth wing of the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Bahumukhi Sangha, on Thursday said it would stage dharnas in front of Ministers’ and MlAs’ houses on 27th of every month if demands of establishment of CT scan and X-ray machines and filling up of doctor posts at the MKCG Medical College and Hospital are not met soon.
“Health and Family Welfare Minister Pratap Jena had visited the MKCG Medical College Hospital on May 26, 2017. We apprised him that the CT scan machine was defunct since October last and doctors are frequently being shifted while there were no doctors for heart, kidney, neurosurgery and pediatric surgery. We too urged him to establish ICUs in the hospital. The Minister assured us to fulfill all these demands in one month’s time. But two months have already passed, not a single demand has been met,” rued Bahumukhi Sangha president Ram Kumar Patro at a meeting held here. He said members of Patel Yuba Sangha would also resort to stirs on chhaks of the city on 27 th of each month as a mark of protest against the State Government’s lackadaisical attitude towards the premier hospital of the south Odisha.
Among others, Patel Yuba Sangh president Sanjay Kumar Das, Kishore Chandra Patro, Raj Kishore Patro, Shyam Sundar Khadanga and Ganesh Panigrahi were present.