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Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Y.S. Sharmila connected Wednesday staged a protestation astatine Andhra Ratna Bhavan successful Vijayawada, demanding contiguous merchandise of ₹2,700 crore pending nether Aarogyasri wellness scheme.
Standing successful rainfall with a stretcher, Ms. Sharmila said backstage hospitals had stopped services for past 14 days owed to unpaid dues, leaving thousands of patients successful the lurch. She warned that if the authorities did not bash the needful, she would spell connected an indefinite hunger strike.
The State Congress main alleged that the TDP-led NDA authorities had turned Aarogyasri into “Anarogyasri,” and accused the authorities of neglecting the wellness of the poor. While erstwhile Chief Minister of undivided State Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy became a God of the mediocre by launching Aarogyasri, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has go a demon by stopping it. Call it NTR Health Scheme oregon Nara Health Services, but proceed the strategy and merchandise the funds,” she said.
Ms. Sharmila said each time astir 8,000 cases were registered nether Aarogyasri successful the State. But due to the fact that of the suspension of services by the empanelled hospitals, patients were being turned away. She alleged that the authorities was conspiring to scrap the wellness scheme, and warned that the Congress enactment would not stay silent.
