Punjab govt slammed for removing MBBS doctors from village health centres amid pandemic
Taking a dig at Captain Amarinder Singh, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) senior leader and Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Punjab Assembly, Harpal Singh Cheema alleged that the Captain government had also issued orders to shift the subsidiary health centers of the villages and also to remove the MBBS doctors serving in these centers from the villages, which will deprive the people of about 3,000 villages from the medical services.;
Chandigarh: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) senior leader and Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Punjab Assembly, Harpal Singh Cheema said that during the Covid-19 pandemic, the removal of the MBBS doctors serving in the villages by the Captain Amarinder Singh-led Congress government of the state was reprehensible and the AAP strongly condemns it.
Cheema said that at a time when Covid pandemic was spreading in the villages of Punjab, it was a wrong decision of the government to remove the MBBS doctors from the villages. In a statement issued from the party headquarters here on Wednesday, Harpal Singh Cheema said that Captain Amarinder Singh's government had transferred about 489 subsidiary health centers in rural Punjab under the Rural Development and Panchayat Department to the Health Department.
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Taking a dig at Captain Amarinder Singh, Cheema alleged that the Captain government had also issued orders to shift the subsidiary health centers of the villages and also to remove the MBBS doctors serving in these centers from the villages, which will deprive the people of about 3,000 villages from the medical services.
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