New Delhi, Oct 25: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday slammed the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh over an incident at a Kanpur hospital where thalassemic children were reportedly administered infected blood and wondered when will Prime Minister Narendra Modi seek accountability from governments led by the saffron party.
The state government-run Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College, however, refuted the report while asserting that no thalassemia patient getting a blood transfusion at the hospital has tested positive for HIV since 2019.
Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister and Minister of Health Brajesh Pathak shared the hospital’s statement on X and captioned it “factual position of Kanpur incident”.
Kharge said the poor children were made to suffer due to the unforgivable act of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Uttar Pradesh.
He said this following a report that 14 thalassemic children were administered infected blood in a government hospital in Kanpur.
“The double engine government has made our health system doubly sick,” Kharge said in a post on X.
The Congress chief claimed that due to the infected blood given to the children, some of them have serious diseases, such as AIDS, Hepatitis B and C.
“This serious negligence is shameful,” the Congress leader said.
“Innocent children are being made to suffer due to this unforgivable crime of the BJP government,” Kharge said.
“Yesterday Modiji was teaching us big things about taking 10 resolutions, has he ever fixed even an iota of accountability for his BJP governments?” the Congress president asked.
The Kanpur hospital said no thalassemia patient getting a blood transfusion at the facility has tested positive for HIV since 2019 and termed the newspaper report as a “misrepresentation of facts”. (PTI)
