Delhi: BJP MPs seek an AIIMS-like hospital in trans-Yamuna

NEW DELHI: Former Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari and East Delhi MP Gautam Gambhir on Friday called upon Union health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan and demanded an AIIMS-like hospital for the trans-Yamuna area in the capital.
The BJP functionaries submitted a memorandum to the health minister alleging that the area is home to over 80 lakh people, but lacks good healthcare facilities. Due to lack of adequate healthcare facilities, many people die every year, they claimed.
Tiwari, an MP from North-East Delhi, said that after Independence, there has always been apathy towards the trans-Yamuna in terms of development. “During the Covid-19 pandemic, hundreds of families living in this region suffered miserably. An AIIMS-like hospital will prove to be beneficial for more than a crore population, including a large number of people from nearby urban and rural areas of Uttar Pradesh,” Tiwari stated.
Gambhir said, “ The AAP government has not implemented the central government’s Ayushman Bharat scheme, which is proving to be life-giving for the poor across the country”. He also pressed for the need for the state-of-the-art health facility. The East Delhi MP stated that the opening of such a hospital will check the arbitrariness of private hospitals as well.
Neelkant Bakshi, political advisor to Tiwari, said the health minister assured the two MPs that he would look into their demand and a meeting of senior officials of the ministry would be soon called to explore the prospect of opening the hospital.