Bihar Govt has decided to open BUHS for medical education: Health Minister Mangal Pandey

Pandey said that arrangement of additional 1000 ambulances would be made to make available ambulance in 20 minutes in urban areas and in 35 minutes in a rural area for taking patients to hospitals. The government was committed to ensure quality treatment facilities to people in government hospitals, he added.

The Minister said that it was the effort of the government that helped in containing Corona infection in Bihar. At present, there were only 350 Corona active cases in Bihar while the recovery rate was 99.29 per cent, he further said adding that more than 1000 new Covid 19 cases were being detected in some states.

Dissatisfied with the reply of the Minister, opposition members staged a walkout from the House. Later, the budgetary demand of the Health Department of Rs 13,264.86 crores was passed by voice vote in the House.

Earlier, Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha and leaders of all political parties expressed their shock over the incident. All of them were of the opinion that decorum of the House should be maintained and attempts be made to avoid such incidents in future.

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