New Delhi: Hours after praising the AAP authorities’s Mohalla Clinic initiative, Karnataka Health Minister and Congress chief Dinesh Gundu Rao on Friday stated it’s “overhyped” and he was left “disappointed” after a go to to 1 such facility.

There was no instant response from the Arvind Kejriwal authorities on the Karnataka minister’s change of assertion. The Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) are members of the opposition INDIA bloc.

On Friday, Rao visited an ‘Aam Aadmi Mohalla Clinic’ at Panchsheel Park right here. He was accompanied by Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj and Karnataka Bhavan medical officer Karthik, in accordance with an official assertion.

Almost 4 hours after praising the mohalla clinic initiative, Gundu Rao made a U-turn.

“Visited a mohalla clinic in Delhi with hardly any people there. Our clinics in Karnataka have more facilities, including a laboratory, to do immediate tests for patients,” the Congress chief tweeted. “I guess it is overhyped and I came back feeling disappointed,” he stated.

During the go to, the Karnataka minister noticed the services on the mohalla clinic and enquired concerning the welfare of staffers.

The Delhi authorities’s mohalla clinic is a neighbourhood facility for offering free main healthcare to residents. The Mohalla clinic programme is among the many flagship initiatives of the Kejriwal authorities to spice up the first healthcare system in Delhi.

Speaking to reporters throughout his go to to the Panchsheel Park mohalla clinic, Rao had praised the mohalla clinic mannequin and stated that it’s functioning “very well”.

“I had heard a lot about mohalla clinics and I wanted to see them personally. I wanted to discuss how they (AAP government) are implementing the health policies,” he had informed reporters.

“In southern states such as Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka, health has always been a priority. Every state has got something good that we can learn from. We have something similar (to mohalla clinics)… we have ‘namma clinics’. We wanted to see how we can improve our system,” he had stated.

Bharadwaj stated his Karnataka counterpart informed him about how good the hospitals are within the southern state. “We will also visit his state. All states should learn from each other. I am very happy that they have come here,” he stated.

Earlier within the day, quote tweeting Bharadwaj’s tweets on Gundu Rao’s go to, Kejriwal had stated Delhi will study from the great work performed by the Karnataka authorities.

“Karnataka health minister visits Delhi mohalla clinics. We welcome him and his team. We all have to learn from each other. Delhi will also learn from the good work done by Karnataka govt,” he had tweeted.

Currently, there are greater than 500 mohalla clinics within the nationwide capital that supply free main healthcare companies to sufferers, together with 212 several types of medical assessments.