Patna, Mar 31 (UNI) The Communist Party of India ( CPI) alleged that the health system was in a bad situation in Bihar, where patients were not being admitted to the hospitals and not getting beds even though four medical colleges were functioning in the state capital, Patna.

CPI state Secretary Ramnaresh Pandey said here on Monday that the top officials of the Bihar government have banned the admission of patients in the emergency ward of Patna AIIMS, IGIMS, PMCH and NMCH at night, following which people are forced to go to private hospitals.

The private hospitals have become a den of loot, he alleged, saying that the government was patting itself on the back for health services. The statement of Union Health Minister JP Nadda in Parliament was misleading and far from reality, he alleged, saying that the Minister claims 157 medical colleges in Bihar, but there are only 12 such institutions, including government and private hospitals in the state.

He said the condition of sub-health centres, additional health centres, Primary Health centres sub-divisional hospitals and Sadar hospitals was wretched. The patients were not getting medicine at the government hospitals, he maintained.

There was a dearth of doctors and other paramedical staff in the government hospitals, and added that the appointment process had been going on for the past 3 years, but no appointment has been made as yet.

The CPI leader said that for the past 20 years, the Health Department has been continuously with the BJP, which has ruined the entire Health Services in Bihar.

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