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Communist Party of India (Marxist) Dakshina Kannada District Secretary Muneer Katipalla has threatened of gheraoing Health and Family Welfare Minister U.T. Khader if helium does not halt the process of allowing backstage aesculapian colleges to connection wellness services astatine authorities wellness centres.
In the protestation held successful beforehand of Community Health Centre successful Ullal connected Friday, Mr. Katipalla said allowing backstage aesculapian colleges to connection wellness services astatine the authorities wellness centres is thing but allowing backstage institutions to power functioning of authorities wellness centres.
“We had threatened the earlier Health and Family Welfare Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao of gheraoing him if helium continued with the argumentation of privatising wellness services astatine authorities wellness centres. If Mr. Khader does not privation to beryllium gheraoed connected the issue, helium has to halt the process,” Mr. Katipalla said and added that CPI(M) volition proceed its objection against privatisation of wellness services astatine authorities hospitals.
Mr. Katipalla said it was bittersweet to spot Mr. Khader asking authorities to attack backstage institutions to conscionable the request of other ambulances for PHCs successful Dakshina Kannada. Instead of visiting authorities wellness centres during nighttime successful Bengaluru, Mr. Khader should sojourn authorities wellness centres successful Dakshina Kannada during the day, wherever helium volition find vacant posts of wellness unit and the atrocious authorities of wellness infrastructure.
On the Community Health Centre (CHC) successful Ullal, Mr. Katipalla said the Health Minister stated that CHC Ullal was treating astir 600 patients each time since the backstage aesculapian assemblage started offering wellness services. “But today, the CHC is closed by 4.30 p.m.,” helium said.
Reacting to this, a territory wellness section authoritative said the OPD helping of the CHC closes astatine 4.30 p.m. daily. The OPD services volition past proceed successful the Causality conception of the CHC, which functions for 24 hours, the authoritative said.
