Union Health Minister draws flak over photo with ailing Manmohan Singh at AIIMS
New Delhi: Union Health Minister, Mansukh Mandaviya has been bashed for visiting former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) along with a photographer, who clicked pictures of ill ex-PM and Mandaviya inside the hospital's ward despite the family's objection.
The incident has brewed controversy and the Minister's act has been questioned and criticized.
Mandaviya on Thursday morning had visited the All India Institute of Medical Sciences to meet and enquire about the health condition of former Prime Minister. Manmohan Singh was admitted to the AIIMS on Wednesday evening after he complained of fever and weakness.
However, the family members of the former Prime Minister has objected to the photo, sources told IANS.
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"It was nice of the health minister to express his concern and visit him at AIIMS. However, the family was in no state to be photographed at the time. My mother [Gursharan Kaur] insisted that the photographer should leave the room because of the fear of infection due to which there is restricted entry to the room but she was completely ignored," Daman told The Wire.
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