Patna: Politics in Bihar has intensified over the lack of Covid facilities and deaths of doctors and medical staff in Bihar with the opposition slamming the Nitish Kumar government as Coronavirus cases continue to surge.
The leader of opposition Tejashwi Yadav has said, "‘If there’s hell…it’s here in Bihar’s hospitals." This comes a day after the RJD leader declared that he has set up a COVID care centre at his official bungalow and urged the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar to provide assistance for the upgrade of the facilities available there.
Tejashwi Yadavshared the letter addressed to health minister Mangal Pandey on his Twitter handle and said he has also sent a copy of the same to the Chief Minister where he has said that he has got the bungalow situated at 1, Polo Road equipped with "basic facilities" like beds, oxygen cylinders, standard medicines and food for patients to be admitted there and their attendants.
"I would request the government that additions be made to the amenities in consultation with medical experts", said the 32-year-old who has emerged as the de facto leader of the party founded and headed by his father Lalu Prasad.
Notably, the bungalow at 1, Polo Road was allotted to Yadav two years ago when he was compelled to vacate his Desh Ratna Marg house, situated adjacent to the chief minister's official residence, after his plea against the government order to the effect was turned down by the court of law.
Yadav had been occupying 5, Desh Ratna Marg since 2015 when he became the Deputy CM, a post he was stripped of two years later following Nitish Kumars abrupt return to the NDA.
The young RJD leader, who seemingly took affront at the whole episode, refrained from occupying 1, Polo Road, and preferred to stay with his mother Rabri Devi at her 10, Circular Road.
Taking a jibe over Tejashwi Yadav's letter, BJP leader and former deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi said, "Without doctors, equipment and health workers, setting up only a few beds in campus does not make it a hospital. It can only be pretended to be a hospital."
Further, Sushil Modi slammed Lalu Yadav's daughters and said, "Tejashwi Yadav has two sisters who are MBBS doctors. Why were their services not taken during the Corona transition? If the RJD leadership had readiness and seriousness to serve the poor, permission would have been first taken from the government to start the hospital and its standards would have been followed."
Responding to Sushil Modi's tweet, Tejashwi Yadav's sister Rohini Acharya slammed him and said not to say anything against her or her sisters and asked him to stop playing politics.
Bihar has witnessed the most number of deaths of doctors in the second wave of Covid pandemic. Altogether 90 doctors have lost their lives till now due to the virus.
Speaking exclusively to ABP, Sushil Modi has said that Bihar is not experiencing any shortage of oxygen supply and the problems regarding beds and vaccines are being solved.. Bihar needs more paramedics staffs on priority.