‘Govt. neglecting Kozhikode MCH to help private hospitals’

The lack of facilities at the Government Medical College Hospital, Kozhikode, is an example of the crisis being faced by government hospitals across the State, Indian Union Muslim League State general secretary P.M.A. Salam has claimed.

He was talking to the media after opening a protest meeting organised by the party outside the hospital on Tuesday. Mr. Salam claimed that the sufferings of the patients here were many times more than what their counterparts in other government hospitals were facing.

“There are no drugs. The government is yet to clear the dues worth crores of rupees to distributors of drugs and surgical devices. Some of those companies have stopped their supply,” he said. Poor patients were forced to wait for months for emergency surgeries. They were forced to depend on private hospitals, which would make crores of rupees in profit. “The government is deliberately trying to help private hospitals. The new block for surgical superspeciality and emergency care had to be temporarily closed after fire outbreaks. It is yet to be reopened,” he said.