Arvind Kejriwal and Delhi LG Vinay Saxena.
Prime Minister Modi on Tuesday inaugurated a Rs 5 lakh free treatment center for people aged 70 years and above. On this occasion, the Prime Minister said that he apologizes to the people of Bengal and Delhi as he cannot help them. Due to political interests, both states have created problems in the implementation of the plan. Now, on this matter, LG of Delhi has issued a statement on behalf of Arvind Kejriwal. Dear former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal ji, I am not aware of your wild statements. But this post is about a very people-oriented scheme of the Government of India – Ayushman Bharat, which benefits millions of countrymen.
LG Vinay Saxena said: You have so far deprived thousands of people of Delhi of this scheme only because it could expose the truth of the false healthcare model propagated by you and your habit of taking false credit for everything. . You opposed the Ayushman Bharat scheme only because you wanted your name to be associated with this scheme in some way.
his government recommended
LG told Kejriwal that in June 2018, his government’s health department had recommended implementing the scheme in public interest in view of its benefits. The then Health Minister had given permission to implement the Ayushman Bharat Plan in Delhi. After that, in August 2018, his government talked about renaming Ayushman Bharat Yojana to Chief Minister Aam Admi Health Insurance Scheme Ayushman Bharat. The central government, which bears the maximum expenses of this plan, has also agreed to glorify with you. I’m just saying you should use your name after Ayushman Bharat.
Following this, accepting the benefits that the poor will get from this scheme, in his 2020-21 budget speech, the then Deputy Chief Minister/Finance Minister also announced that his government will implement Ayushman Bharat Jan Arogya Yojana in Delhi and all parts. , an insurance assistance of Rs 5 lakh will be provided to the family.
Your narcissism prevented you from implementing your plan.
Despite this, their narcissism and hunger for publicity have not allowed the Delhi government to implement this plan so far. Time and again, files on the implementation of the plan reached his ministers and each time they were returned with unnecessary and unsubstantiated questions. At present the file in this regard is in the hands of his successor, Chief Minister. The poor of Delhi are still deprived of the benefits of this scheme.
LG said, I would now like to draw your attention to your so-called health model, which is nothing more than a web of illusion created by your powerful propaganda system. You have suppressed the Department of Health’s CAG report for years. You do not allow these reports to be presented in the Assembly so that they do not expose your network of illusion. Perhaps Delhi would be the only example where the High Court orders the Health Minister to appear personally and asks him to provide medicines to the people.
There is a huge shortage of medicines in hospitals.
He further said that perhaps Delhi is the only example where the courts will have to order the repair of the CT scan machine in the largest government hospital of the Delhi government. His government has not yet revised the list of essential medicines, which has been reviewed annually since 2013, so there is a huge shortage of medicines in hospitals and corruption is rampant.
His own government tells the courts that most of the ventilators, CT scans and X-ray machines in his hospitals are not working. Pathology laboratories do not function as per law and there are only 6 CT scan machines in Delhi government hospitals for Delhi’s 3 million people.
CBI investigates corruption
LG further said that every day news is published about people dying due to lack of treatment and courts have to order that treatment be provided to them. Delhi’s healthcare model is one where Rs 10,000 crore is spent on constructing buildings for 24 hospitals. But no provision has been made for the appointment of 38,000 doctors and healthcare workers in these hospitals. The kiosks are prepared in the form of buildings, but no machine, operating room, nursing station or even mortuary have been arranged in them.
CBI is investigating corruption taking place in the name of testing at Mohalla Clinic. Every person can see their bad condition on the streets. The HMIS, implemented in hospitals in many states of the country, is yet to be implemented in government hospitals in Delhi. There is no information on how many beds are empty, how full the PPD is, how many people benefit from the treatment. Anyone can go and see the brutal conditions of patients, poor state of system and filth in major Delhi government hospitals like GTB, Lok Nayak, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Baba Saheb Ambedkar etc.
I told you about
LG said: I myself told you on the record that thousands of reports of financial assistance for treatment are received in my secretariat. These applications come from workers, vendors, drivers and domestic women, who do not have ration cards or Delhi voter cards. Due to this, they can’t even make Ayushman’s record. The Ayushman Bharat scheme was asked to be implemented in Delhi.
As Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, I have tried on many occasions, orally and by writing letters, to draw your attention to the poor healthcare system in Delhi. But this was not even taken into account on your part. How much benefit do people from other states get under Ayushman Bharat Yojana? You will know this very easily if you bother to go to hospitals like AIIMS, Safdarjung, RML, Sir Ganga Ram in Delhi. If you ask me, I’ll send you the list.
As far as your suggestion of implementing the Delhi healthcare model at the national level is concerned, nothing will be achieved except anarchy, corruption and terrible suffering conditions for patients. It would be better if such inauspicious things did not happen on the auspicious occasion of Diwali. I am attaching some media reports for your and people’s information. In the last 10 years, the people of Delhi have grown fed up with its empty healthcare model. I hope you leave politics, accept the truth and help the people of Delhi implement the Ayushman Bharat scheme in Delhi at the earliest. Since you are no longer the Chief Minister, you may not feel the need to name the Ayushman Bharat scheme after the Chief Minister.
