Chandigarh/Sirsa, 30th, August.
The General Secretary of the All India Congress, former Union Minister, and MP from Sirsa, Kumari Selja said that while the BJP government of the state is busy patting itself on the back for its development, the people of the state are struggling for basic facilities. Essential services such as health, education, electricity, and water have been confined to paper. The state's healthcare services are the most fragile; deliveries are happening either on hospital floors or outside the hospitals, there are places without doctors, and where there are doctors, there are no medicines or paramedical staff. Government hospitals have been reduced to mere referral centers. Patients are being misled about the Ayushman cards, and such patients do not even receive treatment when doctors are not paid. The public is aware of all this and cannot be misled. The people, frustrated for the past ten years, have now decided to oust the BJP government, and in this election, the public will teach the BJP a lesson by voting against it.
In a statement released to the media, Kumari Selja said that according to the standards of the World Health Organization (WHO), there should be one sub-health center for every 5,000 people, one Primary Health Center (PHC) for every 30,000 people, and one Community Health Center (CHC) for a population of 80,000 to 1.2 lakh in rural areas to provide healthcare facilities to every citizen. Currently, 2,667 sub-health centers, 532 primary health centers, and 128 community health centers are operational in the state. According to the needs of the current population, there is a shortfall of 634 sub-health centers, 81 primary health centers, and 53 community centers. The current healthcare infrastructure is not up to the required level. Even in the existing facilities, there is a significant shortage of specialist doctors, staff nurses, radiographers, pharmacists, lab technicians, and multipurpose cadres. She said that a CHC should have six specialist doctors (a surgeon, a gynecologist, a physician, a pediatrician, an orthopedic specialist, and an anesthetist). Several schemes were mentioned by the state to improve public health, but their benefits have not reached the needy. What is the use of such false promises and so-called schemes? Initially, the Chief Minister's Health Survey Scheme was launched, which was later renamed the "Nirogi Haryana Scheme," indicating that the government is more interested in changing the names of schemes rather than implementing them. It was stated by the government that under the Nirogi scheme, free medical check-ups would be provided to residents of the state to detect and treat any serious diseases free of cost. The government also aimed to collect health data through this scheme for future use to provide healthcare facilities, but this plan also failed.
Kumari Selja said that the government had promised to open a medical college in the district to provide better healthcare services, but the public knows how many medical colleges the government has opened in the past ten years. After laying the foundation stone of Sirsa Medical College by President Droupadi Murmu, the government forgot about it because the BJP government does not have a clear intent and has been misleading the public to stay in power. However, now the frustrated people have decided to oust them from power and hand over power to the Congress.