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Health system in Uttar Pradesh has failed amid intense cold: Akhilesh
In a Facebook post by the Samajwadi Party, Akhilesh was quoted as saying that hospitals were no longer providing treatment but only giving consultation
Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav on Monday alleged that the health system in the state had completely collapsed due to the lack of administrative control of the BJP government at a time when the state was in the grip of severe cold.
In a Facebook post by the Samajwadi Party, Akhilesh was quoted as saying that hospitals were no longer providing treatment but only giving consultation. The party’s national spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary said, “People are fed up with this sick system. Hundreds of people have lost their lives.”
He alleged that the poor were on the streets and there was no arrangement for distribution of blankets. He further alleged that the state government was busy making false claims and propaganda.
The party in its Facebook post said the hospitals in Gorakhpur were in a dilapidated condition. The news of hundreds of deaths in Kanpur in a week was heart-wrenching, the party said. The condition of other districts was also bad, it alleged.
In the district hospital of Siddharthnagar, patients were facing problem in getting ultrasound done. On an average, out of 100 patients, the doctor conducted ultrasound of only 30 patients in a day, the party alleged. There was a crisis of treatment in the hospitals of Lucknow as well, it further alleged.
