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Chief Minister Rekha Gupta connected Friday inaugurated 51 caller Ayushman Arogya Mandirs (AAMs), taking the full fig of specified clinics started by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since it came to powerfulness a twelvemonth agone to 370.
Ms. Gupta said her authorities views wellness attraction not arsenic an expense, but arsenic an investment. “Ayushman Arogya Mandirs are not simply attraction centres; they are hubs of prevention, consciousness and trust. When the intent is wide and the resoluteness is strong, results travel swiftly. Setting up 370 Arogya Mandirs wrong a twelvemonth reflects our commitment,” she said. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) authorities aims to acceptable up 1,100 AAMs by the extremity of this year.
The improvement triggered a warfare of words, with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) attacking the BJP authorities for “rebranding” the Mohalla Clinics launched during its tenure arsenic AAMs to assertion recognition for introducing these aesculapian facilities successful Delhi, and the Congress taking connected AAP for having indulged successful a akin workout — rebranding existing authorities dispensaries arsenic Mohalla Clinics — and blaming some for the city’s “poor” healthcare infrastructure.
Some AAMs, which connection escaped superior healthcare services, are revamped Mohalla Clinics portion galore others are successful the process of being rebranded. There are 553 Mohalla Clinics, of which Health Minister Pankaj Kumar Singh said 250 would beryllium closed; galore person already been unopen down. The remaining ones are inactive operating nether the aforesaid sanction but without the posters and banners of AAP and its chief, Arvind Kejriwal.
‘Timely care’
Inaugurating the AAMs astatine an lawsuit successful southbound Delhi’s Fatehpur Beri village, the CM said her government’s precedence is to guarantee that each national has entree to timely, affordable and easy disposable wellness care. Later successful the day, she launched improvement projects worthy ₹322 crore successful the Chhattarpur Assembly constituency.
Ms. Gupta besides inaugurated the ‘Khelo Delhi- Delhi Khel Mahakumbh’ astatine the Chhatrasal Stadium. The lawsuit volition tally for a period crossed 17 stadiums and sports complexes successful the city, and competitions volition beryllium held successful 7 large disciplines: athletics, football, wrestling, basketball, volleyball, kabaddi, and squash.
Ms. Gupta said the constitution of AAMs has brought a important translation successful the healthcare strategy and that these centres connection not conscionable curative services but besides absorption connected preventive and promotive healthcare.
Highlighting the facilities disposable astatine these centres, the CM said residents tin present entree comprehensive, modern healthcare services successful their ain neighbourhoods. Each centre offers astir 80 types of escaped diagnostic tests, indispensable medicines astatine nary cost, precocious diagnostic services and crab screening.
‘False claims’
Meanwhile, AAP’s Delhi portion main Saurabh Bharadwaj accused Ms. Gupta and different BJP leaders of making mendacious claims.
“People of Delhi cognize that astir of the Arogya Mandirs are functioning wrong already existing wellness facilities, and successful galore of those, the aforesaid employees — pharmacists and doctors who were antecedently posted successful dispensaries — proceed to work,” helium said.
Hitting back, Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva alleged that during its 11 years successful power, the Kejriwal authorities had wholly disrupted government-run dispensaries to tally Mohalla Clinics.
“In contrast, upgrading these dispensaries by linking them with the Central government’s Ayushman Bharat strategy and making 51 Arogya Mandirs operational wrong a twelvemonth is simply a large accomplishment of the BJP government,” said Mr. Sachdeva.
He added, “Ayushman Arogya Mandirs are equipped with attraction facilities for each kinds of illnesses on with each basal wellness check-up services, whereas Mohalla Clinics were constricted to treating lone coughs and colds and, successful reality, became centres of X-ray and pathology laboratory referral scams.”
