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A delegation of Praja Arogya Vedika met Finance Minister Payyavula Keshav and Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare Minister Satya Kumar Yadav successful Amaravati connected February 11(Wednesday) and submitted a memorandum seeking a important summation successful allocations to the wellness assemblage successful the 2026-27 Budget.
In a property statement, PAV president M. V. Ramanaiah and wide caput T. Kameswar Rao said the memorandum underscored what they described arsenic persistently debased nationalist wellness spending successful Andhra Pradesh. They stated that the 2025-26 Budget provided ₹19,264 crore for health, which works retired to astir 1.05% of the GSDP and is importantly little than the benchmarks suggested successful the National Health Policy 2017 and by the World Health Organisation.
They said inadequate backing had resulted successful gaps successful superior and preventive healthcare, shortage of quality resources, anemic agrarian and tribal infrastructure, and insufficient measures to code malnutrition and anaemia among women and children.
Among the cardinal demands, the organisation sought an summation successful wellness allocation to astatine slightest 2.5% of the GSDP, which would necessitate an further ₹20,000 to ₹25,000 crore implicit the erstwhile outlay. It besides called for prioritising superior and preventive healthcare, introducing a peculiar wellness bundle for tribal areas, strengthening the Public Distribution System to tackle precocious levels of malnutrition, filling vacancies and bridging infrastructure gaps, upgrading 104 and 108 exigency services, and clearing pending payments nether NTR Vaidya Seva.
The delegation expressed interest implicit what it termed excessive dependence connected privatisation and nationalist backstage concern models successful the wellness sector. It demanded improvement of RCD Hospital successful Visakhapatnam into a ace specialty children’s hospital, strengthening of AIIMS astatine Mangalagiri, enlargement of the Kakani Cancer Data Centre, and upgrading VIMS into a postgraduate and probe centre.
The members urged the authorities to absorption connected publically funded and equitable healthcare alternatively than aesculapian tourism oregon high-end nationalist backstage partnerships, which they cautioned could widen inequalities. They besides appealed to Opposition MLAs to item these issues during the treatment connected the State Budget successful the ongoing Assembly session.
