'Shivraj govt insensitive to Bhopal gas victims, behaving like Tughlaq'

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BHOPAL: The state government is trying to take over the hospitals that were set up for treatment of the gas victims in Bhopal, said activist Abdul Jabbar on Tuesday.

Jabbar alleged that apart from eyeing the super-specialty Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre (BMHRC) and property of other hospitals, it is also trying to gobble up BMHRC corpus fund, instead of focusing on improving standards of the existing hospitals and better treatment to the victims of the gas tragedy.

Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, Jabbar who heads Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan (BGPMUS) said that Shivraj Singh Chouhan government has been insensitive towards plight of gas victims.

Thousands of patients visit these hospitals every day and the State government is now planning to take over the BMHRC and shift Sultania Zenana Hospital into the Kamla Nehru Hospital, with little regard to court's directions.

Terming the purported plan of Shivraj Singh Chouhan government as whimsical, Jabbar said that it is just like Tughlaq's decision. "The aim to shift the historic Sultana Zenana Hospital into Kamla Nehru Hospital or vice versa, shows the intention of the government. 

Already, the state government run hospitals are in a bad shape. But government has been totally apathetic towards nearly 1.5 lakh people who are suffering from after-affects of the gas tragedy", he said. 

"The officials who are involved in such decisions must realise that the state government has not been listening to the courts and are guilty of the contempt, which may land them in jail", he said.