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New Delhi:

Delhi Lt Governor V Ok Saxena has requested Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to implement the Centre’s Ayushman Bharat scheme within the nationwide capital, saying its non-implementation is inflicting struggling to poor sufferers, Raj Niwas officers mentioned on Sunday.

Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj responded by saying the Lt Governor just isn’t conscious of the bottom realities. The affected person load from the neighbouring BJP-ruled states’ hospitals is similar to Delhi’s hospitals below Ayushman Bharat, he mentioned.

Mr Saxena has recalled the file associated to Ayushman Bharat in regard to invoking Rule 19(5) of Transaction of Business Rules and requested the chief minister to implement the scheme on the earliest for the good thing about poorest of the poor, Raj Niwas officers mentioned.

“I am constrained to underline here that an issue as important as the very health of our people seems to have fallen prey to mindless politicking aimed only at one-upmanship and credit grabbing,” Mr Saxena mentioned in a file noting.

Mr Saxena, whereas disposing the file outlined that the federal government, regardless of having given in-principle approval for the implementation of Ayushman Bharat scheme approach again in 2018 and having introduced it even in its funds in 2020, had stalled it.

He additionally outlined the truth that the ready record for difficulty of ration card to the deserving beneficiaries has candidates ready since 2018. In the absence of such paperwork, poor sick sufferers affected by severe illnesses couldn’t avail of well being advantages below different out there schemes, he mentioned.

Mr Saxena additionally highlighted the state of public well being and authorities hospitals in Delhi.

“Be it availability of beds, construction of newer hospitals or the availability of diagnostic equipments as basic as CT scan machines and irregularities in the functioning of Mohalla clinics, all these leave much to be desired.

“It goes with out saying that GNCTD must put its act collectively, so far as public well being is worried and any hesitation on a part of the federal government in accepting schemes/assistance on a part of the Govt of India, due to extraneous irrelevant causes, will account for nothing lower than enjoying with the important difficulty of well being and well-being of the folks of Delhi,” the LG noted in the file.

Mr Saxena said it would be in the interest of the people of Delhi that the scheme is implemented at the earliest in the national capital.

“Such progressive steps wouldn’t solely alleviate the monetary burden on low-income households and lakhs of migrants but additionally contribute to the general well-being and well being safety of the folks of Delhi,” Mr Saxena said in the file noting.

The LG stressed that successive health ministers since 2018 – Satyendar Jain, Manish Sisodia and Bharadwaj – on as many as six occasions stalled the file on “flimsy political pretext” despite the fact that their aim of credit seeking had been addressed right in the beginning, with the Government of India clarifying that Ayushman Bharat could be suffixed with any name that the Delhi government wanted.

In a statement, Delhi minister Bharadwaj said at most of the hospitals in Delhi – especially GTB Hospital, LBS Hospital and Rao Tula Ram Hospital – which are situated either at the border of Uttar Pradesh or Haryana, the patient load from the BJP-ruled neighbouring states is comparable to the patient load from Delhi in these hospitals.

“In sure hospitals like GB Pant Hospital, nearly half of the full variety of surgical procedures carried out is on sufferers from states whereby the Ayushman Bharat scheme is operational, just like the BJP-ruled states of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana. It may be very unhappy to see that although the LG is boasting concerning the Ayushman Bharat scheme, there may be virtually no success on the bottom,” he said.

Mr Bharadwaj said the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) had recently highlighted many grave discrepancies in the Ayushman Bharat scheme including invalid names, unrealistic dates of birth, duplicate health IDs and unrealistic family sizes in the database of Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY).

“The CAG had additional reported that ineligible households had been discovered registered as PMJAY beneficiaries and had availed the advantages ranging between Rs 0.12 lakh to Rs 22.44 crore below the scheme,” the minister mentioned.

He requested the LG to direct the well being secretary to accompany the well being minister through the inspections of hospitals and different healthcare amenities. 

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