YSR Congress party leader and former Andhra Pradesh health minister Vidadala Rajini on Tuesday flayed the Telugu Desam Party-led coalition government in the state for watering down Aarogyasri, neglecting ambulance services and construction of medical colleges.
Speaking to media, she said the health minister has been spreading a false notion about the health sector during our government as they want to pursue the policy of privatisation.
“While former chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has planned 17 medical colleges in three phases and completed five in first phase which gave 750 seats to medical students by 2024 and started works for five colleges in the second phase, the coalition government failed to take forward the initiative only to benefit private players,” Rajini said.
She alleged that the vindictive nature of Chandrababu Naidu was revealed when his government singled out YSR Medical College in Pulivendula and wrote to the National Medical Council not to allot seats to the college as infrastructure was not in place.
“Majority of the work was complete by January and this government did not take the works forward, but had stalled progress of the medical college,” she alleged.
Rajini further said the emergency ambulance services of 104 and 108 were watered down and the family doctor scheme is being ignored, she said, adding that the coalition government was trying to create a scenario that nothing was done during the previous government while development was tangible.
