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Makkal Nalavazhvu Iyakkam (MNI), the Tamil Nadu section of the People’s Health Movement, released a Health Manifesto for the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly election, calling designation of wellness a justiciable close and a halfway electoral priority.
The manifesto was released successful the beingness of representatives from implicit 32 subordinate organisations, on with students and nationalist wellness professionals. The papers is the result of consultations held with assemblage groups, civilian nine organisations, and wellness workers crossed the State, articulating people’s demands connected strengthening the nationalist wellness system.
Key demands include: contiguous finalisation and notification of a broad State Health Policy, enactment of Right to Health Care Act to warrant escaped and cosmopolitan entree to services, and accrued nationalist spending connected wellness with astatine slightest 8% of the Gross State Domestic Product allocated to the sector, prioritising superior healthcare.
The manifesto besides calls for filling all vacant posts successful authorities hospitals, ensuring uninterrupted availability of indispensable medicines, strengthening maternal and intelligence wellness services, regulating backstage healthcare institutions nether existing ineligible frameworks, and safeguarding patients’ rights. It reiterates absorption to the enlargement of insurance-based and public-private concern models successful nationalist healthcare delivery.
