CAG report on health services under the erstwhile AAP government’s regime tabled in the Delhi Assembly on Friday. Chief Minister Rekha Gupta tabled the CAG report Performance Audit of ‘Public Health Infrastructure and Management of Health services’ in Delhi covering the period 2016-17 to 2021-22 and called it the dark truth about the health model of the previous AAP government. Half of the 27 Delhi government hospitals lacked an ICU and 60 per cent of them lacked a blood bank. CAG found shortage of staff in various healthcare institutions, deficiencies in patient care such as non-availability of drugs and equipment in hospitals, delay in distribution of medicines, long waiting time for diagnostic services and surgeries etc., delay in completion of health infrastructure projects. Report said, “On one hand, a large part of the funds released by the Central Government remained unused in the accounts and, on the other hand, 40% of the registered pregnant women could not even get basic medicines like iron and folic acid.”
