Mansa, May 22 – Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal today said it was unfortunate that despite fervent appeals chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh had done nothing to regulate treatment in private hospitals as well as cap cost of tests in private laboratories. He demanded that keeping in view the current crisis the government should immediately announce free treatment for all Covid patients in government hospitals.
The SAD President was addressing the media after inaugurating a twenty five bed Covid Care centre equipped with concentrators at the Guru Nanak College, Budhlada here by the Shiromani Committee. SGPC President Bibi Jagir Kaur said this was the sixth Covid centre which had started extending level one and level two services to the people in the State. It was also announced on the occasion that Covid vaccines worth Rs 53 lakh had reached SGPC’s Guru Ram Das Medical College and that a vaccination drive would be started shortly.
Mr Sukhbir Badal said despite repeated requests to the chief minister to regulate the functioning of private hospitals; nothing was done to stop patients being fleeced by these institutions. He said Covid patients were not stepping out of their homes because adequate treatment was not available in government hospitals and the private institutions were charging extremely high rates which the patients could not afford. “I request the chief minister to declare the pandemic a calamity and provide free treatment to people to control the further spread of the disease”. He also urged Congress legislators to make a similar demand in the interest of humanity. “The government might listen to you and come to the rescue of its people”, he added.
Mr Badal also demanded that the Congress government purchase injections needed to counter the black fungus disease in bulk on the same pattern as done by the other State governments and offer them to patients free of cost. “Black fungus cases are on the rise and can be tackled with injections which cost Rs 10,000 per dose every day. It is because of this that the disease is not being treated”.
Meanwhile touching on another topic, the SAD President said in a new phenomenon during Covid times, gangsters were ringing up traders and industrialists in large numbers and extorting money from them forcibly. He said he had received complaints from Bathinda, Mansa and Ferozepur from traders stating they were receiving extortion threats from gangsters and even forced to pay up as they were not being extended any protection by the police. Mr Badal said this was because Congress legislators were running the police force and were in league with the gangsters. “It is condemnable that the law and order situation has collapsed in this manner during a period of crisis”, he added.
Sukhbir S Badal demands govt extend free treatment to Covid patients in private hospitals
Mansa, May 22 – Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal today said it was unfortunate that despite fervent appeals chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh had done nothing to regulate treatment in private hospitals as well as cap cost of tests in private laboratories. He demanded that keeping in view the current crisis the government should immediately announce free treatment for all Covid patients in government hospitals.
The SAD President was addressing the media after inaugurating a twenty five bed Covid Care centre equipped with concentrators at the Guru Nanak College, Budhlada here by the Shiromani Committee. SGPC President Bibi Jagir Kaur said this was the sixth Covid centre which had started extending level one and level two services to the people in the State. It was also announced on the occasion that Covid vaccines worth Rs 53 lakh had reached SGPC’s Guru Ram Das Medical College and that a vaccination drive would be started shortly.
Mr Sukhbir Badal said despite repeated requests to the chief minister to regulate the functioning of private hospitals; nothing was done to stop patients being fleeced by these institutions. He said Covid patients were not stepping out of their homes because adequate treatment was not available in government hospitals and the private institutions were charging extremely high rates which the patients could not afford. “I request the chief minister to declare the pandemic a calamity and provide free treatment to people to control the further spread of the disease”. He also urged Congress legislators to make a similar demand in the interest of humanity. “The government might listen to you and come to the rescue of its people”, he added.
Mr Badal also demanded that the Congress government purchase injections needed to counter the black fungus disease in bulk on the same pattern as done by the other State governments and offer them to patients free of cost. “Black fungus cases are on the rise and can be tackled with injections which cost Rs 10,000 per dose every day. It is because of this that the disease is not being treated”.
Meanwhile touching on another topic, the SAD President said in a new phenomenon during Covid times, gangsters were ringing up traders and industrialists in large numbers and extorting money from them forcibly. He said he had received complaints from Bathinda, Mansa and Ferozepur from traders stating they were receiving extortion threats from gangsters and even forced to pay up as they were not being extended any protection by the police. Mr Badal said this was because Congress legislators were running the police force and were in league with the gangsters. “It is condemnable that the law and order situation has collapsed in this manner during a period of crisis”, he added.
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