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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has expressed superior interest implicit the rising fig of Caesarean (C-section) deliveries successful the State, revealing that 90% of them hap successful backstage hospitals.
Speaking successful the Assembly during a treatment connected the Medical and Health Department connected Tuesday, Mr. Naidu criticised the signifier of scheduling surgeries connected auspicious dates (muhurthams) for convenience, calling it medically unnecessary and ethically wrong.
Medical and Health Minister Satya Kumar has to prosecute with backstage hospitals and guarantee that surgeries are performed lone erstwhile medically required, emphasising that earthy deliveries indispensable beryllium prioritised. “We are fig 1 successful C-sections successful the country, which is worrying and not thing to beryllium arrogant of. God has fixed women a earthy body, unnecessary operations indispensable beryllium avoided,” helium said.
Referring to the World Health Organisation (WHO) report, the Chief Minister said Andhra Pradesh has a comparatively precocious fig of aesculapian officers disposable locally. Currently, the State has astir 1,15,000 doctors serving its population. The mean beingness expectancy successful India is 70 years. Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) stands astatine 30, portion the State has achieved an awesome 97% immunisation coverage. “Our precedence is harmless childbirth, accessible healthcare, and a Healthy Andhra Pradesh,” helium said.
PPP model
Mr. Naidu besides defended the State government’s Public-Private Partnership (PPP) exemplary for aesculapian colleges, stating that it is not privatisation but a method to velocity up infrastructure improvement and guarantee healthcare entree for the poor. Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, and Jharkhand States are already adopting the PPP model. OP services, medicines, and treatments volition proceed escaped nether NTR Arogya Seva and Ayushman Bharat, helium said, adding, aft 33 years, these colleges volition instrumentality to the government.
Andhra Pradesh has added 1,819 aesculapian seats since bifurcation, including 607 seats successful 2024–25 nether the conjugation government, compared to lone 452 seats added by the erstwhile YSRCP authorities during 2019–24. Under the existent policy, 75 convener quota seats per assemblage are allotted to mediocre students, compared to 64 earlier, resulting successful 110 further seats overall, helium said, adding, “Our extremity is to physique a Healthy Andhra Pradesh, with aesculapian infrastructure superior adjacent to WHO standards.”
