LG questions state of health infra, CM points to officials

Lieutenant governor VK Saxena has written to chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, expressing his "disappointment and concern" about the state of public health infrastructure in the Capital, and seeking a "time bound response" and the submission of a factual report about the sector.

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Kejriwal, responding to the development, has laid the blame for the state of Delhi's health system on two bureaucrats the health secretary and the finance secretary - and asked Saxena to replace them both.

Saxena in a three-page letter to Kejriwal dated February 3, cited remarks made by the Delhi high court regarding health infrastructure, media reports on the non-availability of facilities such as CT scans and ventilator beds, and an investigation in a case where a man died after he was refused treatment by government hospitals due to non-functioning equipment.

HT has seen a copy of the LG's letter.

The LG wrote that the Capital deserves a world-class healthcare system, not one "plagued by systemic dysfunction and neglect, as is the case now".