Chamarajanagar: Visiting Chamarajanagar for the first time after becoming the CM — in a way to break the jinx that whichever CM visiting Chamarajanagar loses power — Basavaraj Bommai promised the residents of Chamarajanagar that he would visit Chamarajanagar again.
“As a CM, it is my duty to visit all district headquarters. If I had not come here, it would have been a lapse in governance as Chamarajanagar is an integral part of Karnataka. I will come again and hold a progress review meeting. At least I will not allow lapses in governance and administration,” Bommai assured.
He further said that the Government will sanction eight additional hospitals under PPP model in the State in the next 18 months. “Such hospitals will come up in districts lagging in medical facilities. We understand that every district needs a medical college and a state-of-the-art hospital,” he said. “The patient-to-hospital bed ratio and patient-to-doctor ratio in Karnataka was not as per World Health Organisation (WHO) norms. To bridge the gap, we have appointed 4,000 doctors and this is for the first time in Karnataka history that such a number of doctors have been appointed,” Bommai claimed.
Bommaii quotes the WHO about the doctor-to-patient ratio and ignores the fact that in third world countries like India, where the patient has the pathetic choice of either eating food or paying the cost of healthcare, as countries like India, after 70+ years of independence has large number of people in crores who are @healthcare have nots’ against a very small number of rich ‘healthcare haves’ which all hospitals-these days all private hospitals in large numbers in each town and doctors cater to.
What a scandalous state? Healthcare in other developed countries is considered as fundamental human right , and as a service, where as in India it is a profitable business .
But still India is more interested spending on: ‘Chandrayan’!
India is the only country, where 3% of the population pays tax and rest 97% of the population enjoys. Everything in life comes at a price.