Delhi's health infrastructure under scrutiny: Rekha Gupta to table CAG report

New Delhi: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on the 'Public Health Infrastructure and Management of Health Services' is set to be tabled in the Delhi Assembly today by Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta.

According to sources, this report will be based on the status of government hospitals and health services (2024) and will 'expose' the reality of health services in the national capital. 

As per sources, this will be the second report of CAG, which will be presented in the assembly. The report will review the status of government hospitals, mohalla clinics and other health facilities of the Delhi government, ANI reported.

The CAG report will see how much difference there is between the claims made by the previous government and the ground reality. The availability of machines in government hospitals, supply of medicines, number of doctors and nurses and facilities provided to patients will be assessed.

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The report may also reveal whether the budget allocated by the Delhi government in the health sector was spent properly or not. During 2022-23 and 2023-24, the government had made big claims for the health sector, but did the patients really get the benefit of it? Information on this will also be given in the report.

BJP had already started cornering the previous Delhi government and alleged that there is a huge lack of facilities in government hospitals, patients have to wander around for treatment and even medicines are not available.

Delhi Health Minister Pankaj Singh said, "The previous government was making big claims about health services, but the reality is something else. Everything will be revealed in the CAG report", reports ANI.

Many questions have been raised earlier on the Mohalla Clinic scheme of the previous government. In many reports, it was claimed that there is a shortage of doctors in the clinics, essential medicines are not available and patients are not getting better treatment.

Earlier, on Tuesday, CM Rekha Gupta tabled the CAG report on the Delhi Excise Policy.

The 'Performance Audit on Regulation and Supply of Liquor in Delhi' covers a period of four years from 2017-18 to 2020-21 and examines the regulation and supply of Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) and Foreign Liquor in Delhi.

Notably, Delhi Assembly session has been extended by two days till March 1.

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