Chandigarh: Under fire of opposition, the Aam Aadmi party (AAP) on Saturday admitted that it was an unfortunate for humiliating vice Chancellor of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences.
While terming the incident at the university as “unfortunate” Chief Spoksperson Malvinder Singh Kang said that the manner in which the opposition is doing cheap politics over the issue is equally unfortunate. It is quite evident that the Health Minister Chetan Singh Jouramajra was distressed to find the dilapidated condition of beds and lack of cleanliness at the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences where mostly poor people come to take treatment.
He said,, “No one from the opposition speaks when a poor man dies due to deplorable health conditions and cavalier attitude of government staff. The Health minister has been visiting government hospitals for a month now to transform the system. He did not want to disrespect anyone but the AAP government will not tolerate any laxity in the system,” Kang said. Later, in the evening, the minister had visited the government hospital in Bathinda and he lauded the staff for their services there.
Kang, however, clarified that the CM Mann led government has utmost respect for doctors and medical facilities and the state government is committed to safeguard their interest as well as to uplift the standard of facilities in the government hospitals.
Attacking the opposition for raising questions over academic qualification of minister Jouramajra, Kang dared the opposition to clarify that why they did not raise objection when Balbir Singh Sidhu and OP Soni were health ministers in the Congress government, as both of them were undergraduates.