Madurai: Stalin calls for sacking health minister

Madurai: The manner in which a pregnant woman got infected with HIV, two days after the Chief Minister pledged to free Tamil Nadu of AIDS on December 1, is enough proof of the failures of the AIADMK government and to immediately dismiss health minister, DMK president M K Stalin has said.

Condoling the death of the donor, who died at the Government Rajaji Hospital in Madurai on Sunday, Stalin said that the death and the transfusing HIV infected blood to a pregnant women at a government hospital was proof of the complete breakdown of administration.

“Blood at government hospitals should have been screened. The work carried out by NGOs for the cause has gone to waste owing to the attitude of the government. They seem to make it look as though such incidents are common, when in reality they have left a the black day in the healthcare sector of Tamil Nadu,” he said

Despite having been the health secretary for six years, Dr J Radharkrishnan has also acted poorly and should be transferred immediately, Stalin added.