Ambala: Addressing media persons here during his recent visit, former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said that health services in all government hospitals in the state have arrived on ventilators during past 10 years BJP rule in Haryana state, where there are no medicines, lack of medical equipments and shortage of doctors as well as para-medical staff in civil hospitals, Primary Health Centres (PHC) and Community Health Centres (CHC) in rural areas across the state, which are functioning merely a referral centres. Hooda said patients have to spend a lot of money outside for the Lab tests from outside private laboratories.
Hooda said, according to the WHO guidelines there should be a doctor for every 100 patients, whereas in Haryana state government hospitals there is a single doctor for 2086 patients. He said, according to WHO norms the government hospitals in the state should have an arrangement of one bed for 200 patients, whereas as against 2086 patients there is only a single bed available in most of the government hospitals in the state, and one can generally see two to three patients lying on a single bed in government hospitals in the state. Similarly, deliveries of female patients are frequently done on the ground in maternity wards in the government hospitals. Hooda said, as regards Senior Medical Officers, Medical Officers and Dental Surgeons out of the total number of 5253 posts in the government hospitals in the state more than 1100 posts are lying vacant.
Former CM said BJP government in the state in 2014 had promised to set up medical college in every district across the state, but not a single medical college has been started in past 10 year, whereas when Congress was ruling in Haryana a Health University and six medical colleges were set up in the state, besides opening of a medical college for women at Khanpur in Sonepat district and National Cancer Institute in Jhajjar. Hooda said that 641 PHC and CHC were opened when Congress was ruling in the state, whereas such health centres witnessed drastic decline in the past 10 years due to lack of care and the neglect by the BJP government, many of these situated in rural areas have turned to skeleton merely functioning as referring centres without doctors and para-medical staff. According to the state president of Haryana Civil Medical Services (HCMS) Dr Rajesh Khayalia, large number of posts for the doctors in the state government hospitals are lying vacant, which include 15 posts for PMO and CMO, nearly 200 posts of Senior Medical Officers and 110 posts of Medical Officers are vacant in the hospitals in the state.
