India, Nov. 10 -- The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has questioned the BJP Government's intent after it failed to operationalise the fully constructed 1,470-bed Shalimar Bagh hospital, warning that the administration appears to be preparing to hand over Delhi's newly built public hospitals to private entities.

Calling such a move a betrayal of the people of the city, AAP leader and former Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj said the BJP must explain how citizens will receive free treatment if hospitals built with crores of public money and on public land are simply transferred to private hands. During a media interaction on Sunday, the AAP Delhi State President said, "This is not just about one hospital in Shalimar Bagh; nearly 24 hospitals wer...