Saryu Rai complains to health minister about hospitals

RANCHI: State health department's claims of improved healthcare in medical colleges have come under scanner again after state minister for food and civil supplies and parliamentary affairs Saryu Rai questioned the condition of hospitals.
In a letter to Chandravanshi earlier this week, Rai wrote about lack of diagnostic equipment, staff crunch and the need to work out more accommodation for managing the ever growing number of patients in Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College (MGMMC) Jamshedpur.Later on January 12, the minister posted about his interaction on his Twitter account. "Spoke to Chandravanshi on the poor state of Jamshedpur medical college which demands immediate attention," the tweet read.
While Chandravanshi could not be contacted, an aide of the minister said, "He has directed MGMMC authority to submit a report on the status of pending work."
Rai's letter to Chandravanshi is not the first. In November last year, Dumka BJP legislator and state social welfare minister Louis Marandi had written to Chandravanshi for immediate commencement of burn unit in Dumka district hospital. Marandi had highlighted the need for a burn unit considering the rise in burn cases and pointed to the delay despite couple of reminders.
Besides cabinet ministers, legislators within BJP rank and file have been writing to the department for better medical facilities in the respective constituencies, sources in the department said.