Health machinery collapsed due to strike in Maharashtra: Opposition leader Ajit Pawar

Mumbai: Opposition leader Ajit Pawar on Wednesday said the health machinery in Maharashtra has collapsed while other essential services are affected due to the ongoing strike by the state government employees.

Speaking in the Legislative Assembly, Pawar asked the government to intervene to end the stir.

“In the last two days of the strike, the health machinery has completely collapsed. The incidence of H3N2 flu is rising and the strike is impacting the common citizens. In a hospital, more than 150 surgeries are pending. The process to conduct panchnamas of (crop losses) due to recent unseasonal rains has stopped due to the strike,” he said.