Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal continues his surprise checks to city-run hospitals as on Friday he visited the Deen Dayal Upadhyay hospital.
Kejriwal and Health Minister Satyender Jain surprised the patients, attendants as well as the staff and doctors of the hospital.
They went to several wards and talked to the patients there, said an official. Kejriwal’s visit caught the doctors and officials by surprise even as the people approached him with their problems. Some were seen taking photos of the Chief Minister.
“Is everything alright hereIJ Are you getting all the medicinesIJ” Kejriwal asked a patient. The Chief Minister’s visit comes days after his inspection of the Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital, where he had found “several deficiencies” and expressed displeasure over the State of affairs.
The AAP chief had also expressed unhappiness over the action-taken report following his May 25 inspection and directed Chief Secretary MM Kutty to visit the hospital and submit a report.
Kejriwal has also written to lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal and sought removal of the medical superintendent of the Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital over the “deficiencies”.
Incidentally, Jain had paid a surprise visit to the Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital at Dilshad Garden on May 30.
During his visit, the Health Minister had interacted with the patients and their family members. With nearly 100 cases of chikungunya reported in the national Capital before the onset of the monsoon, Jain, after his inspection of the hospital, had claimed that the Delhi Government was prepared to handle any possible outbreak of vector-borne diseases. The Health Minister had also paid a visit to the Acharya Bhikshu Hospital recently.