India, Feb. 28 -- The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) flagged severe shortcomings in Delhi's government hospitals in a performance review of the city's health care system between 2016 and 2022, tabled in the Delhi Assembly on Friday. The report highlighted severe staff shortages, an acute lack of life-saving infrastructure, long wait times in hospitals for surgeries, and the underutilisation of pandemic relief funds.

The report - Public Health and infrastructure and Management of Health Services - was presented in the assembly on Friday by Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta.

Among other issues, the CAG highlighted a string of deep-rooted human-resource deficiencies in Delhi's government health department. It revealed an overall shor...