Patna
Union Law, Justice, Communications and IT Minister, Ravishankar Prasad, could visit two premier hospitals in the state capital after receiving permission from the district magistrate of Patna.
He distributed oxygen concentrators, cylinders, PPE kits and surgical masks in Patna Medical College Hospital and Guru Govind Singh Hospital, after getting permission from the DM.
Since May 23, there is a ban on movement of ministers in the state. The restrictions applied to Ravishankar Prasad too, who represents Patna Saheb in Lok Sabha. He reached here Friday night and after getting special permission of administration, visited two hospitals only to distribute Covid control and management equipment.
He did not visit the wards as it is prohibited, but held meetings with the superintendents of the two hospitals.
Dr IS Thakur, Superintendent of PMCH told the union minister, "Now only 17 Covid patients are admitted". Ravishankar said so far two crore people have been vaccinated against Corona in Bihar and assured by the year-end, all citizens would get vaccinations.
He handed over 100 oxygen cylinders at Bihar medical Services Corporation LImited's Fatuwah godown in his constitutency. These cylinders have been gifted by Telecommunications Consultants India Limited under corporate social responsibility scheme.
BJP's MLA from Kumhrarar Arun Kumar Sinha, who was active in different parts of the state capital in sanitising residential colonies was also told to remain indoors since May 23 ban was imposed.
State BJP President Sanjay Jaiswal said he would request the Chief Minister to lift restrictions on the ministers.
A senior minister of BJP claimed in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath visited 52 districts during Corona and his Madhya Pradesh counterpart, Shivraj Singh Chauhan, too is active in the field, but in Bihar, entire job of monitoring has been entrusted to the selected few bureaucrats and even Nitish Kumar was confined in his official bungalow, 1, Anney Marg.
