While the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) launched an attack on the Central Government after a CBI team visited Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s residence, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal started his day with another surprise inspection at a Government-run hospital here on Friday morning.
The Chief Minister visited Maharishi Valmiki Hospital in in Northwest Delhi’s Bawana and directed officials to take action after he found an alleged violation in prescription norms by a doctor.
Kejriwal accompanied by Health Minister Satyendar Jain, went to several wards and talked to the patients there.
In a rather unusual move during the inspection, Kejriwal took prescription card of a person present near a medicine counter and himself enquired about it, only to be told by the staff manning it that “the medicine prescribed by the doctor was not available”.
When the Chief Minister further enquired about it, the staff told him that, “the medicine was not available as it was not part of the inventory list”, the Aam Aadmi Party officials said.
Kejriwal then sought to know from the medical superintendent of the 150-bed hospital as to why the medicine was prescribed if it was not in the list.
The Chief Minister has directed officials to take action after finding this case, they said. As per a recent Government directive, only medicines listed in the inventory approved by the Delhi Government are to be prescribed by doctors at Government hospitals.
Kejriwal’s visit caught the doctors and officials by surprise even as the people approached him with their problems.
“Is everything alright hereIJ Are you getting all the medicinesIJ” Kejriwal asked a patient.
On June 2, the Chief Minister paid a surprise visit to Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Hospital in West Delhi’s Hari Nagar area to take stock of the situation there.
Prior to that he had inspected the Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital on May 25, where he had found “several deficiencies” and expressed displeasure over the state of affairs.