AIMIM member complains on govt hospitals

Saturday, March 17, 2007, 15:52 [IST]

Hyderabad, Mar 14 (UNI) AIMIM MLA Mohd Mustada Khan today complained in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly that government hospitals in the city and the one in Golkonda in particular lacked staff, equipment and medicines.

Making a Zero Hour mention, he said women stopped going to the Golkonda Hospital as there was no lady doctor. He alleged even the poor were being asked to buy medicines and added during emergencies, ambulance was not available and when it was, drivers were complaining there was no fuel.

The AIMIM member complained that most of the government hospitals in the city lacked equipment and there were no scanners in most of them.

UNI

Topics: ASSEMBLY-AP-HOSPITALS

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