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Updated: Jun 10, 2023 23:14 IST

Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], June 10 (ANI): Leader of Opposition within the Punjab Assembly and Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa on Saturday slammed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Punjab authorities over the stoppage of the National Health Mission (NHM) within the state.
He alleged that CM Bhagwant Mann’s “adamant stance” to copy Delhi’s “faulty health model” has broken the state’s well being system.
Taking to Twitter, Bajwa mentioned, “The @AAPPunjab govt must explain how exactly funds under National Health Mission were stopped. The AAP govt blamed the centre government for the stoppage of Rs 800 crore funds under NHM, whereas Union Health Minister had claimed that the Centre had not stopped the funds, rather the state govt itself had shut the health scheme by renaming the health centres as Aam Aadmi Clinics”.

He added, “Due to its adamant stance to replicate Delhi’s faulty health model, CM @BhagwantMann govt has caused irreparable damages to the smoothly working health model of Punjab”.
The Congress chief additional alleged that the state authorities is finishing up its routine actions on “borrowed money” and it has additionally failed to boost revenues by ending sand mining and eliminating corruption.
“The AAP government’s obstinacy in naming health centres after its own party had cost the state, which was reeling under a shortage of funds. In many cases doctors and other health workers from subsidiary health centres (commonly known as rural dispensaries) were transferred to these common man clinics,” Bajwa mentioned in a press release.
He additional accused the Punjab authorities of taking untimely choices as a consequence of which the debt burden on the state is rising.
“Since the funds below NHM have been stopped, the AAP government should clarify how it will ensure the smooth functioning of health services in Punjab. The state government should state whether it will take a loan for the same purpose or raise funds from any other source,” he mentioned. (ANI)