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Senior Congress leader and member of Congress Working Committee Ramesh Chennithala will extend a hand in assistance to the family of Venu, an auto driver from Panmana, Kollam, who died at the Government Medical College Hospital (MCH), Thiruvananthapuram, recently and whose family has alleged that he was not given due care at the hospital. Mr. Chennithala said Venue’s family— consisting of his wife and two children— would be given a health insurance cover of ₹10 lakh and that the annual premium for the same would be borne personally by him. Mr. Chennithala had visited the family of Venu on Friday. He said he was providing health insurance cover to the family so that they would not suffer Venu’s fate. ‘In pitiable state’ He pointed out that all government medical colleges are in a pitiable state and that the Health Minister had no right to head the department. He alleged that Venu’s death was in fact a murder committed by the health system and that case should be charged against the doctors responsible for the same. He said the government should take responsibility for the family. The government claims that the State is “number one” when it comes to health. But the poor seem to be left on their own fate in the State with the so-called “number one” health sector, he said. Mr. Chennithala said that the State’s health sector was in total disarray and that many hospitals were on the verge of collapse because of lack of facilities and human resources. The government, at the same time, was interested only in launching public relations campaigns, rather than resolving the real issues in the health sector, he pointed out.
