Rajiv Bindal, BJP’s Himachal helm, issued a wake-up call from Shimla on Wednesday, cataloging the dire straits of Sirmaur’s healthcare amid what he calls governmental apathy. His critique lays bare a system failing its people at every turn.
Patients face hiked diagnostic prices, fees for registration slips, empty pharmacies, and a shrinking doctor pool. The fallout includes four closures—three PHCs and one CHC—stranding thousands without care.
Bindal mourned the Himcare scheme’s collapse and Ayushman card oversight as stark injustices to Sirmaur and Nahan. The Governor’s document, he noted, unmasks inequities: ample aid to Chamba, Hamirpur, Tanda, Chamiyana, IGMC, but zilch for Nahan Medical College.
Former Health Minister Bindal raged at the over-three-year freeze on Nahan’s buildout. Centre’s full funding under Modi arrived, yet no utilization trail. He probed: Unopened 11-floor tower and 500 beds? Stalled 50-bed maternal hospital? Diverted nursing funds?
Bindal called out Congress’s blame game on Delhi laced with insults, spurring BJP pushback. With 27,000 crore grants and more over 3.5 years, why the institutional decay, stalled works, public plight? Funds’ fate remains murky.
Following their protest filing and all-party exit pre-budget, Bindal hailed Centre’s 40-month aid surge, faulting state financial shenanigans and admin flops for Himachal’s downturn.