After his go to to the first well being facilities (Mohalla clinic) operated by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) authorities within the nationwide capital, Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao referred to as them ‘not a game-changer’, stating that they aren’t as revolutionary as they’re portrayed. Rao in contrast this initiative to comparable fashions in southern states like Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka, emphasising that these clinics usually are not as groundbreaking as they’re being offered. He mentioned, “It (clinics) is not like the way it is made out to be.”

“The way it’s being projected, there are so many other states, including Karnataka, where we have a better system…we have namma clinics…and we are doing things in a much better manner,” he was quoted as saying by information company PTI.

Gundu Rao was welcomed by CM Kejriwal

Arriving within the capital earlier within the day, Gundu Rao acquired a heat welcome from Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. With the intention of understanding the implementation of well being insurance policies by the AAP authorities in Delhi, the Karnataka minister expressed his curiosity in regards to the mohalla clinics, which he had heard a lot about.

During his go to, Rao was accompanied by Delhi’s Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj and different officers. Bharadwaj lauded Rao’s inspection of the well being amenities, because it may contribute to enhancing Karnataka’s “namma clinic” idea.

Nevertheless, almost an hour following the tour, Gundu Rao took to X (beforehand often known as Twitter) to specific his disappointment. He conveyed that his go to left him underwhelmed, citing an absence of sufferers on the clinic and asserting that healthcare amenities in Karnataka surpass these he noticed in the course of the go to.

“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. I guess it is overhyped and I came back feeling disappointed,” he wrote.

AAP MLA hits again

In response to Gundu Rao’s remark, AAP MLA Naresh Balyan strongly rebuked him and provided a important evaluation of the “namma clinic” facility in a put up shared on X.

“The namma clinic you were talking about, Crocin medicine is also not available in the clinic. Don’t know how many years it has been closed. The game you are playing at the behest of (Congress leader Ajay) Maken, in this game we defeated Maken 10 years ago,” Balyan wrote.

It’s value mentioning that the Congress and AAP are constituents of the just lately established political coalition of Opposition events often known as the INDIA bloc.

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Published on: Friday, August 04, 2023, 10:56 PM IST