Mumbai: Per week after Chief Minister Eknath Shinde paid a shock go to to the civic-run KEM Hospital, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Aaditya Thackeray on Tuesday alleged that each one civic hospitals have run out of primary medicines and affected person providers have been hit onerous. He alleged that the civic chief just isn’t bothered concerning the hospital and sufferers must fend for themselves. 

Absolute lack of help from civic admin: Aditya

“BMC-run hospitals are helpless as never before due to the absolute lack of support from the civic administration and its Central Purchase Department,” stated Thackeray. Posting on X, previously Twitter, Thackeray stated he’s tweeting the plight of hospitals for the reason that civic physique “only responds when in public domain”. 

“The BMC administration is directly run from the Contractor Mantri (CM) office; for the past year, it has only been seen serving builders and contractors but not the people,” Thackeray alleged. 

Notably, the Shiv Sena (undivided) headed by Aaditya’s father Uddhav Thackeray managed the cash-rich BMC for 25 years from 1997 to 2022. Currently, the BMC’s affairs are managed by the administrator, who was appointed final March after the time period of the civic physique expired however elections are but to be held. 

Since he took cost, further municipal commissioner Dr Sudhakar Shinde has visited 100 hospitals; paying shock visits to examine for loopholes in providers and the way they are often improved. He can also be stated to have taken a number of cleanliness and hygiene measures, together with anti-rodent steps.

Sion hospital quick working out of staple items

Thackeray claimed medical doctors and workers at Sion Hospital are working tirelessly to help the providers however the hospital is quick working out of primary medicines, gloves and X-ray movie inventory. “It is bizarre for the BMC administration and CPD to expect the hospitals to carry out work procurement work,” he added. He additionally alleged that promotions of medical doctors have been stalled for a yr now and plenty of posts are mendacity vacant in civic hospitals. 

Health activists, nonetheless, slammed Thackeray, calling his warfare mongering an train to realize votes. The Shiv Sena has been ruling the richest civic physique for a few years however hasn’t offered good services to sufferers or improved the infrastructure of any hospital, they stated.

“Many redevelopment or renovation projects of civic hospitals are pending and only a few of them have been completed by 10-15%. The healthcare services in all civic hospitals are pathetic. If they really wanted health care service to improve, it would have been done long ago. People easily fall for these stunts,” an activist stated. 

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Published on: Tuesday, August 29, 2023, 11:12 PM IST