Chief minister Hemant Soren on Wednesday posted a slew of tweets tagging state health minister Banna Gupta as well as deputy commissioners (DCs) of districts, directing them to take care of poor patients in distress.

Twitter users had alerted the CM about the cases, with video clips and newspaper reports as proof.

“There is no space for insensitivity at government-run health centres or hospital,” Hemant tweeted.

While his tweets got the jobs done, what was highlighted again was that healthcare and support for the poor in Jharkhand was in a shambles.

Based on a video clip of a news channel on the plight of Irfan, a paralysed patient from Pakur who was waiting outside RIMS, Hemant asked minister Gupta to help the man.

The CM also directed the Ramgarh DC to help Prakash Kundu, a patient with pancreatic problems, and asked the Ranchi and Pakur DCs to give the benefits of government schemes to two cancer patients — Ashima from Ranchi, and Rukhsar Parveen, a little girl from Pakur.

RIMS medical superintendent Dr Vivek Kashyap said Irfan had been hospitalised. “Irfan was already a RIMS patient but he had wandered out of the hospital somehow,” Dr Kashyap said.

Prakash Kundu, Ramgarh DC Sandeep Singh said, was not from the district but they traced him to Dari in Hazaribagh. Hazaribagh DC Bhuvnesh Pratap Singh said ration and Ayushman Bharat health insurance cards were issued to Prakash.

Pakur DC Kuldeep Choudhary said they gave Rs 10,000 to Rukhsar’s parents and would send her to RIMS on Thursday. “We are also lining up a hospital in Bangalore,” Choudhary said.

Ranchi civil surgeon Dr Vijay Bihari Prasad said Ashima’s Rs 5 lakh insurance cap under Ayushman Bharat had finished but he was figuring out how to help her.