Opposition Claims Health Services in Maharashtra on Ventilator Support, Stages Protest Against Govt

GG News Bureau
Nagpur, 12th Dec. 
Health services in Maharashtra are in critical condition, claimed opposition parties who staged a protest against the government.

The Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance, consisting of the Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party, and Congress, voiced their concerns about the state’s health services.

They specifically targeted Maharashtra Health Minister Tanaji Sawant and his department. The leaders of the opposition, including Vijay Wadettiwar, Ambadas Danve, Ashok Chavan, and Balasaheb Thorat, gathered outside the Vidhan Bhavan wearing white coats, carrying stethoscopes and a stretcher.

Danve highlighted the deteriorating health services in the state, citing deaths in government hospitals in Nagpur, Nanded, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, and Kalwa.

He claimed that the health services in Maharashtra are on the verge of collapse, with a shortage of medicines in state-run hospitals.

The opposition leaders also mentioned specific incidents of patient deaths, such as 31 deaths at the Dr Shankarrao Chavan Government Medical College and Hospital in Nanded in September and 18 deaths at the Government Medical College and Hospital at Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar between October 2 and 3.

Additionally, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital in Kalwa reported 18 deaths in a span of 24 hours in August.

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