The Congress has alleged that despite approval
of Rs 12 crore by the government in March 2012 to purchase medicines for government
hospitals, the fund could not be spent for said purpose even in seven months.
In this connection, the
Congress workers led by former president of party’s Jhuggi Jhopdi cell Sheikh
Shakeel submitted memorandums to Raipur Collector Siddharth Komal Pardesi,
Health commissioner Pratap Singh and Health director Dr Kamalpreet Singh on
Friday.
Shakeel said the relevant
authorities should have used the fund timely considering scarcity of medicines
in Ambedkar and other government hospitals.
“With no medicines available in
government hospitals, the low income patients are forced to buy the prescribed expensive
drugs from elsewhere,” he added.
Further indicating that the
X-ray machine in Ambedkar hospital had stopped functioning for the past several
days, the Congmen demanded to repair it quickly.
“If medicines will not be
purchased from the approved fund in next coming days then we will submit
memorandum to Health minister,” they said.
On the occasion, Shakeel was
accompanied by Suresh Chandra Dave, Prakash Ramteke, Jagram Mahanand, Sewak
Mahanand, Mumtaz Hussein, Sadik Khan, Santosh Kumar, etc.
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