Posted 2/4/2024, 11:01:32 AM
Delhi Hospitals Crisis Triggers Blame Game Between CM Kejriwal and Lt Governor
- Delhi Lt Governor wrote to CM expressing "disappointment" over "pathetic" state of hospitals based on court's observations
- Court pulled up Delhi govt over lack of ICU beds, ventilators after a patient died as 3 hospitals denied him treatment
- CM responded alleging 2 secretaries "insubordination" and not following ministers' orders has led to poor hospital conditions
- CM requested Lt Governor earlier also to replace Health Secretary and Finance Secretary
- AAP govt and Lt Governor office locked in tussle over controlling Delhi bureaucrats, matter challenged in Supreme Court