‘Only Worried About Votes, Not The Voters’: Calcutta HC Slams Mamata Govt Over Lack of Medical Facilities

Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court has strongly reprimanded the West Bengal government over the lack of medical infrastructure in the state. 

While hearing a petition of a social worker, the division bench of Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam and Justice Chaitali Chatterjee slammed the Mamata government over its failure to upgrade and expand the 10-bed Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Mathurapur, which was constructed in 1976. 

“We can’t accept your submission that a 10-bed hospital constructed in 1976 is enough for the present also... The other places are also dirty; that’s why patients are going to private hospitals. Where is the logic? This is unacceptable. You move out of Kolkata; people are dying,” Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam remarked.     

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Slamming West Bengal Health Department officials, the Chief Justice observed, “The Principal Secretary, Health Department, has justified the non-increase in the capacity of a 10-bed hospital since 1976... this is unacceptable. Unless you are dragged, you will not do... you are not concerned about the citizens... They should work with conscience... only worried about votes and not the voters.”

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A social worker had filed a petition before the court that his ancestors had donated around 13 bighas of the land to the West Bengal government for the expansion of a local 10-bed primary health center (PHC) in 1976; however, no upgrade has been made yet at the healthcare facility.