Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari on Friday accused the Delhi government of “neglecting” health services and asked it to come out with a white paper on its spending on developing medical facilities in the Capital.
Alleging that the Delhi government’s preparations to tackle dengue and chikungunya were “incomplete” and urging it to come out with an audit on its Health Department, Mr. Tiwari said: “Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal scared people with dengue and chikungunya during the recent municipal polls while his government’s preparations to tackle the diseases are incomplete.”
Demand for audit
The BJP leader said that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government should bring out a white paper on the quantum of funds it had received from the Centre and the expenditure incurred by it on providing health services in Delhi.
“We also demand a Health audit and a social audit in the next one month, for determining to what extent health services have developed under the Kejriwal government,” he said.
Mr. Tiwari added that the Centre contributes hundreds of crores of rupees every year to the Delhi government for several public welfare schemes under the Health Department.
Just like for other States, the Centre had directed the Delhi government in November 2015 to set up a city-level vigilance and monitoring committee under the National Health Mission, the Delhi BJP chief said.
“The Centre has been releasing funds to the Delhi government under various health schemes and also reminding the Kejriwal government to set up a monitoring committee. The Lieutenant-Governor and the Central Health Department had written a letter to the Delhi government in this connection on November 10, 2016, and February 20, 2017,” Mr. Tiwari said.
Citing the Modi-led Centre’s Jan Aushadhi Yojna, he also sought to know from the Delhi government whether such medicine stores were opened by it. “We want to know why basic facilities are absent in hospitals run by the Delhi government,” the BJP chief said.
