LG's office ignoring acute shortage of doctors in Delhi govt hospitals: Saurabh Bharadwaj

New Delhi, Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj on Sunday accused Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena's office of "spreading falsehood" and ignoring the acute shortage of medical personnel in the government hospitals of the capital. LG's office ignoring acute shortage of doctors in Delhi govt hospitals: Saurabh Bharadwaj In a strongly-worded response to the allegation, Raj Niwas officials said 10 years of misgovernance, masqueraded by "Now that the system is crumbling, Press Conference Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj is frantically searching for alibis. The minister said he had again sent a letter to the LG through Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for the recruitment of doctors and other paramedical staff in the vacant posts in the Delhi government hospitals. Bharadwaj said on July 26, he again wrote a letter to Saxena and requested him that since the services department comes directly under him and the appointment of a doctor through the UPSC can take a lot of time, keeping this in mind, doctors should be hired for Delhi government hospitals on a contractual basis as soon as possible, so that the poor people coming for treatment in these hospitals can get complete and adequate treatment.