Former Health Minister and BJP MLA from Bishrampur, Ramchandra Chandravanshi on Monday highlighted Government failure in healthcare facilities in the State. Chandravanshi was talking to media persons at the party office, hitting out at the State government on completion of one year.
Chandravanshi said, “The BJP government under the leadership of Raghubar Das had initiated several developmental schemes in the health sector in the last five years. During the tenure of Raghubar Das government necessary infrastructure was provided to three medical colleges which are running smoothly. But the present government has failed in upgrading infrastructure in these medical colleges, but is only concerned in changing the names of buildings (medical colleges).”
The former health minister claimed that the present government has not done any single work in the health sector. According to health minister, the biggest setback in health sector is that due to state government lackadaisical approach, due to non-compliance of instructions of National Medical Council in time, there was no enrolment of students in three medical colleges at Dumka, Hazaribagh, Palamu in the session 2020-21.
He said no action has been taken on the proposed amendment in 2019-20 for inter-state medical reimbursement for state employees. This has caused a lot of problems in medical reimbursement to the state personnel.
Highlighting government’s failure in proper utilization of Centre’s fund in talking about corona pandemic, the former health minister said that the Centre had provided Rs 2000 crore to State for handling pandemic, but the state government failed in utilizing the funds.
Chandravanshi also raised the issue of delay of appointment of full term director at RINPAS. He said the interview process for appointment of director at RINPAS was completed but the government is yet to make an appointment. The BJP press conference was attended by state spokesperson Pradeep Sinha, state media in-charge Shivpujan Pathak among others.
Meanwhile, Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee spokespersons Alok Kumar Dubey, Lal Kishorenath Shahdeo and Rajesh Gupta Chhotu retaliated on the statement of BJP MLA cum former Health Minister Ramchandra Chandravanshi, saying that former health minister failed in improving health sector in state, but many educational institutions, engineering colleges and medical colleges and other business establishments have been established in his name. The Congress leaders claimed despite Chandravanshi representing the area for decades no development work was initiated in his Assembly area.
Congress spokesperson Dubey said that during the tenure of former health minister Chandravanshi, there was neither proper screening facility nor ventilator available in the state government hospitals, while the present government has provided ventilators and other health facilities. State Congress Committee spokesperson Lal Kishorenath Shahdeo said that during the tenure of Ramchandra Chandravanshi, larvae of malaria and dengue mosquito were found in the premises of RIMS and other government hospitals including Sadar Hospital. The situation was so bad that dozens of children died due to malnutrition in the government medical college in Jamshedpur.