In protest against the pathetic condition of health services in the State, a delegation of State unit of Congress party met the newly appointed Director General (DG) of health services, Dr Amita Upreti on Saturday. The delegation was led by the Vice President of the State unit of the Congress party, Surya Kant Dhasmana. He said that the CT scan machine of the GDMC, which is the biggest government hospital in the state is not functioning from last seven months and the hospital has only one third of the required staff.
The Congress leader said that the contractual workers of the hospital are not getting salaries from last six months and sanitation condition of the hospital has derailed. Dhasmana said that the state health department dealt in a sloppy manner with Dengue which created problems for the people of the State. He said that the health department is only busy in fudging of data. The Congress leader told the DG that most of the Primary Health Centres (PHC) in the mountainous areas are either closed or are being operated by pharmacists. Submitting a memorandum to the DG, the Congress delegation demanded that the health department should prepare an emergency plan and appoint doctors in the hospitals of the State.
The leaders also said that the CT scan and other facilities at GDMC should be made available without any further delay. The Congress delegation threatened that the party would launch an agitation if the condition of health services is not improved.
The delegation comprised of spokesperson Garima Dassauni, Mahesh Joshi and others.