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| Azad raps Omar Govt over failure to build two pediatric hospitals | | 'I acquired land, bent rules to provide Rs 100 Cr, sanctioned 2 hospitals but state Govt failed to act' | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 19: Dismantling Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's suggestion that Government of India was a roadblock in raising and maintaining the children's hospitals in J&K, union Minister of Health and senior Congress leader, Ghulam Nabi Azad, today claimed that it was the state Government that had failed to build the two hospitals. He claimed that he had not only acquired 100 Kanals of land for Hajj House and a pediatric hospital in Bemina area of Srinagar as Chief Minister but also sanctioned two pediatric hospitals and provided Rs 100 Cr by relaxation of NRHM norms, as union Health Minister, for the construction, but Omar Abdullah's government had failed to go for execution in the last over three years.
While addressing a news conference at conclusion of the day-long conclave of Congress party at SKICC here today, Azad obviously took exception to Chief Minister's statement carried in local newspapers today. Chief Minister was quoted to have said that he would take up the matter of the joint control of G B Pant Hospital with Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. State government has been lamenting since last week that joint control of Cantonment Board Badami Bagh, in vicinity of 15 Corps headquarters, and Medical Education Department was a reason of administrative anarchy at G B Pant Children Hospital, where over 360 newborns and children are reported to have died since beginning of current year.
Responding to a question, Azad asserted that health was exclusively a state subject and, as such, none other than the state government should own responsibility of the poor quality of healthcare and infant mortalities at G B Pant and other hospitals.
Azad also criticized the state government for failing to build pediatric hospitals despite availability of resources needed for the same. "While I was the Chief Minister, we had acquired 100 kanals of land for construction of Hajj house and a hospital at Bemina in Srinagar. Just 30 kanals were utilized for Hajj House but the state government has not been able to build a hospital there", Azad said.
He also said that although National Rural Helath Mission (NRHM) was a scheme for rural areas, through his personal efforts he had sanctioned an amount of Rs 60 Cr for construction of two pediatric hospitals, one each in Srinagar and Jammu. "But nothing has been done for setting up the hospitals in the last over two years", he claimed.
"We have sanctioned Rs 60 Cr for the two hospitals for Jammu and Srinagar. Land is available, money is available for last over two years. What else can I do?" he asked, while putting the blame of poor child healthcare and failure to build the two pediatric hospitals on the state government.
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