In a pointed Rajya Sabha address, Congress MP Pramod Tiwari exposed the dire state of AIIMS Raebareli, a project languishing 12 years post its 2013 groundbreaking. Despite ambitions to serve as a medical powerhouse in Uttar Pradesh, it grapples with severe staff shortages that undermine patient care and academic pursuits.
Key figures underscored the crisis: 610 operational beds instead of 960 planned, 37 senior doctors filling 200 posts, and 7 professors against 33 sanctioned roles. Tiwari attributed the delays to political bias against its UPA origins tied to Sonia Gandhi, slamming the government’s recent budget for ignoring it entirely. He implored for a politics-free zone in health and education sectors.
The debate extended to Maharashtra’s farming heartland, where Shiv Sena MP Rajani Patil reported over 250 suicides in Beed this year alone, part of a broader Marathwada calamity driven by climate woes and debt traps. She highlighted the injustice of impoverished farmers succumbing to minor loans’ interest while affluent defaulters abscond, insisting on legal MSP guarantees for sustainable farmer incomes.
These parliamentary spotlights reveal systemic failures demanding urgent, equitable remedies to prevent further human tragedies in healthcare and agriculture.