Ailing health services in Bawani Khera

The Bawani Khera Assembly segment in Bhiwani district had expected a turnaround in terms of infrastructure development during the BJP regime

Updated At : 01:36 PM Oct 06, 2019 IST

Gulab Singh park in Bawani Khera town. Tribune photo

Deepender Deswal

The Bawani Khera Assembly segment in Bhiwani district had expected a turnaround in terms of infrastructure development during the BJP regime.

Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar had laid the foundation stone of a medical college and the campus of the newly set up Chaudhary Bansi Lal University (CBLU) at Prem Nagar village of the segment in 2017.

While the work on the construction of the campus of CBLU has just started with the raising of the boundary wall, the project of setting up the college is yet to take off.

Sources said the state government is having a rethink on the selection of the site for the setting up of the medical college. Khattar had laid the foundation stone in 2017 at Prem Nagar and announced that it would be completed in two years at a cost of Rs189 crore.

The health services are also not up to the mark. The previous government led by the Congress had sanctioned 25 more beds in the Civil Hospital in Bawani Khera town but this project too has remained confined to government files only.

Social activist Baljeet Singh alleged that the Civil Hospital does not have adequate medical staff. Patients of the region have to visit Bhiwani Civil Hospital or the PGIMS, Rohtak, for treatment.

Retired Army man Ramkishan Kajal said they are not getting water in Bawani Khera town and in the adjoining villages of the segment. “Leakage in sewerage pipes and overflowing sewerage lines have resulted in supply of polluted water to houses in Bawani Khera town,” he said.