Health Minister 'Hit By A Guard' During Safdarjung Hospital Visit, Was Disguised As Common Man

Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya reached Safdarjung Hospital posing as a common man, where he got hit by a guard with his baton.

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya | File Image

New Delhi: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya narrated the pain of a common man as he himself shared his recent experience. It is reported that the Union Minister, disguised as a common man, reached Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital and sat on the bench. He was allegedly hit by a guard who asked him not to keep sitting there. 

Health Minister Mandaviya talked about the incident at the inaugural function of health facilities at Safdarganj Hospital last Thursday. As soon as he reported the incident, the audience present as shocked.

Mandaviya inaugurated four facilities including the new oxygen plant, a temporary hospital ready to treat covid patients.

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The Health Minister said, during his surprise inspection lack of a managerial system in the hospital was at display.

"I saw that an elderly woman of about 75 years in the hospital needed a stretcher for her son. The guard present did not help the woman get a stretcher and/or carry the stretcher," he said. 

During the function, the Health Minister said that arrangements should be made in the hospital, for a need as basic as pulling a stretcher, so that patients do not face any of these problems again.