New Delhi June 17 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday flayed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for failing to keep his 2015 promise to upgrade a general hospital in Odisha s Rourkela to a super-speciality hospital-cum-medical college.
"The PM promised Rourkela a multi speciality hospital three years ago. Now Muktikant Biswal has walked 1 300 km to Delhi because the PM hasn t kept his promise and people are dying " Gandhi tweeted attaching a news report about the Odisha man.
Biswal a 30-year-old from Rourkela has walked 1 350 km so far to meet the Prime Minister and remind him about his 2015 promise. He was admitted to a hospital on the Agra National Highway after he fainted.
Addressing a public meeting at Rourkela Steel Plant in 2015 Modi announced that the existing Ispat General Hospital will be upgraded.

--IANS bns/him/mr