IT News
Imphal, June 22:
The Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) has started attacking the BJP led government here in the state of Manipur in connection with the dealing of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Spokesperson of the Party N. Bupenda asked the present BJP government to spell out the number of hospitals constructed during its reign.
Has the BJP government built and run any new medical college since 2017 in Manipur? Has the BJP government built any new AIIMS since 2017 in Manipur, Bupenda asked?
From 2002 to 2017, when the Congress party was in power, RIMS was upgraded to central status and the government established state-owned medical College – JNIMS
“If Congress government did not bring the central status to RIMS and established JNIMS as a state-owned medical college, then the fight against covid pandemic would have been further worsened considering the reality that the BJP government has not built any new government hospital since 2017.
JNIMS, one of its very rare kind, in the entire North East India, has been saving many human lives during the covid pandemic. The success of today’s JNIMS is due to the Congress government’s visionary planning by instituting it as a premier medical college for the people of the state and nation, Bhupenda added.
He added that the Congress governments built District Hospitals in districts of Thoubal, Bishnupur, Churachandpur, Ukhrul, Tamenglong, Senapati, Chandel, etc., and many of them are 100 bedded hospitals. The Congress governments, throughout hills and valley, had built Sub-District Hospitals/ Community Health Centres. All CHCs, PHCs and PH Sub-Centres were established during Congress governments in the state.
Instead of strengthening the health infrastructure set up by the previous Congress governments, the present BJP government displays its lack of health infrastructure by comparing the number of ICUs equipped with ventilators available during the Congress government and the present BJP government during the covid pandemic. BJP must realise that covid pandemic mandates any government, whether of Congress or not, to procure any new medical equipments to combat Covid pandemic.
Bhupenda questioned the government – “How can the BJP government claim its success by such inappropriate comparison of the number of ICU beds with ventilators in combating covid pandemic when it has failed to even build one dedicated covid hospital, which it did promise in the first wave in 2020? How many crores of rupees have been spent by the BJP government in procuring ICU beds equipped with ventilators since 2017?”
He said instead of BJP criticizing the previous Congress government’s health infrastructure, the BJP government must create its own government health infrastructure during Covid pandemic. What is happening today is to witness the Chief Minister of Manipur, who is also the Health Minister, for his inauguration of a small private health infrastructure during covid pandemic. Had not Congress government built the infrastructure of the Industrial Centre at Lamboikhongnangkhong and T. B. Hospital at Keirao, today’s BJP government will definitely find extreme difficulty in combating the covid pandemic. It is these infrastructures, which were created by the Congress governments, are being utilized as covid centres to fight covid today.
