A shocking clip of a patient being wheeled out on a scooter from a hospital in Gaya has ignited a firestorm of criticism. Opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav did not hold back, accusing the state government of disastrous healthcare mismanagement, pointing out the dire lack of doctors, essential medicines, and even basic mobility aids like wheelchairs.
Patna: Leader of opposition in the state assembly, Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, on Wednesday attacked the state govt over the state of health infrastructure after a video from Anugrah Narayan Magadh Medical College and Hospital (ANMMCH), Gaya, surfaced showing a man taking his grandmother on a scooter to another hospital.The elderly woman, admitted with respiratory illness, was allegedly denied a stretcher, while doctors were also not available, according to the attendant. He claimed he was forced to take her on a scooter in search of treatment elsewhere.Sharing the video on X, Tejashwi said Bihar’s hospitals were reeling under severe shortages.“In Bihar’s hospitals, there are no doctors at some places, no cotton at others — where there is cotton, there are no needles, somewhere there are no medicines, somewhere no beds… and now the situation is such that even wheelchairs are not available for patients in hospitals.
Out of helplessness, patients are being carried sometimes on bicycles, sometimes on cots, and sometimes on scooters,” he posted.He alleged that the state’s health system had “collapsed” under the NDA govt and questioned the purpose of hospitals if they lacked doctors, wheelchairs, medicines, treatment facilities and health workers.Tejashwi also said merely constructing buildings and naming them medical colleges and hospitals did not strengthen healthcare services.
He alleged that such projects were being used to earn “hefty commissions” and said without recruitment of doctors, nurses, dressers and lab technicians, the facilities would remain ineffective.He further alleged that government hospitals in the state had become referral centres from where patients were pushed towards private hospitals.Gaya DM Shashank Shubhankar said the matter was being investigated and action would be taken accordingly.
