Big showdown between Bihar Health Minister & Health Secy in presence of CM Nitish Kumar

In an unprecedented development, Bihar Health Minister Mangal Pandey lodged a complaint of Principal Secretary Health, Government of Bihar Uday Singh Kumawat, that too in presence of Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and all  Cabinet Ministers during course of cabinet meeting.

Mangal Pandey, who was sitting next to Nitish Kumar during meeting, openly took on Uday Singh Kumawat and said, " officer doesn't listen to him and only does what he wants to." On this Uday Singh Kumawat through a video conference said, "I have to say something."

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On this Bihar CM reprimanded Principal Secretary and told him that "every day at least twenty thousand RTPCR tests should be done else I will take action. If you cant handle department, please leave it. If Delhi can conduct Thirty-eight thousand tests every day than why can't Bihar. At block level, re should be 100-bed Hospital and hospital should have proper oxygen facilities so that patients could be treated in ir district and burden on Patna could be less."

Nitish Kumar furr added, "In past 14 years of my government I have never faced a situation like this. Testing should be increased else I will take action. I will soon review Health Department and will t spare people who are indulging in wrong practices."

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Uday Singh Kumawat has been in eye of controversy ever since he joined Health Department two months back. re were complaints against him that he would t pick calls from officials of Health Department and t even meet anyone in his chamber.

Bihar's COVID crisis

Despite number of positive cases on rise in Bihar, Bihar is lagging behind in conducting tests. w this showdown between Health Minister and Health Secretary doesn't augur well for Bihar. Earlier, Health secretary and 90 Batch IAS officer Sanjay Kumar was unceremoniously removed from post. 

Of late re has been a sharp rise in number of positive cases in Bihar with new cases being reported in past 24 hours. So far 36314positive cases have been reported in Bihar out of which 24520 cases have recovered and re are 11561active cases. recovery rate of Bihar is 67.52 per cent. So far 232 people have died due to Coronavirus in Bihar.

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