Mumbai

In a scathing attack, Shiv Sena (UBT) President and ex-Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray alleged corruption in the current government of Maharashtra and demanded a CBI probe into its affairs, and the recent hospital deaths, and appealed for help to the patients in government hospitals, here on Friday.

Speaking to the media, Thackeray said that the state’s healthcare system has gone for a toss owing to the blatant corruption through ‘agents’, rate-cards for postings, commissions in deals, and other ills.

This is the same healthcare setup that I had when I headed the Maha Vikas Aghadi government during the Covid-19 pandemic… We had the same doctors, the staff, infrastructure and other things. It had performed extremely well in the Corona emergency, but see the status now. What has gone wrong, said Thackeray.

He slammed Chief Minister Eknath Shinde for sitting in New Delhi to discuss how to tackle the Maoist menace when people are dying here in government hospitals and appealed for medical help to the poor.

The CM and both Deputy CMs (Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar) should have gone to Nanded, studied the situation and taken remedial measures… said the ex-CM.

Referring to the purported shortages of medicines and other requirements, Thackeray said during the Corona pandemic, the MVA government used to supply medicines and vaccines to people in far-flung areas, even by drones in remote/inaccessible regions.

There is no pandemic now, yet this is the tragic situation. This government has money to take MLAs to Gujarat.