Once again in the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Dr. Harsh Vardhan had to leave the post of Health Minister. In the year 2014, Dr. Harsh Vardhan, who was the first health minister of the Modi government, had to leave the chair only after a few months, and then JP Nadda was the health minister for the whole term, but in the year 2019, when the Modi government was formed again, Dr. Harsh Vardhan had to become the health minister again. given a chance.
But exactly two years and 38 days later, he had to leave the post because during this period neither his health could improve nor the medical class of the country could trust him amid the corona epidemic. Under his supervision, the responsibility of the Group of Ministers formed from the Prime Minister's Office could not be properly performed. The situation was such that openly black marketing of medicines continued in the country.
People had to suffer for all the medicines including Remdesivir, Tocilizumab, Plasma, Ivermectin. From beds to oxygen crisis prevailed in hospitals and lakhs of people died in the second wave. In the midst of all this, questions were raised on the credibility of the government, but the extent was reached when they could not handle Baba Ramdev and allopathy cases.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi came forward on July 1 to calm the episode and to instill confidence in allopathy doctors and had to address all the doctors in the program of the Indian Medical Association (IMA). According to the officials of the Ministry of Health, the Health Minister had gone to the back put only last year when the corona epidemic started and decisions were taken from the Prime Minister's Office. To handle the deteriorating situation day by day, the PMO had to stop all work and increase intervention.
At present, the situation is that all the empowered groups of the government regarding Kovid-19 also include high officials of the PMO. There is even a discussion that till now the tenure of the Health Minister continued only on social media. Leaving the rest of the work, political allegations and counter-allegations continued with the Health Minister of Chhattisgarh, sometimes Maharashtra, and then Delhi.
To fight the pandemic, the government formed a group of more than a dozen ministries headed by Dr. Harsh Vardhan. So far, this group has met 29 times in the last one and a half years. But after January this year, no meeting of the Group of Ministers was held in February and March. This was the time when the mutations of the virus kept happening and the country stood in a big crisis, not paying attention to the covid vigilance rules.
Since Dr. Harsh Vardhan is the MP from Chandni Chowk in Delhi. That is why there is even a discussion in the Delhi BJP that in the second wave. When the workers and the patients of the leaders kept on suffering for oxygen. Treatment, and medicines, did not get any help. Nor was there any hearing from the representatives of the BJP.
Amid the Corona epidemic, discussions are also intensified regarding the new health minister. But the officials of the ministry believe that if the ministers are non-medical. Then the way forward will not be easy for them because at this time the ministry. The entire system related to them have to be handled by such a health minister. There is a need that is also related to the medical profession as the non-medical minister may take some time. To meet the current challenges of health as well as research and vaccination.
