Dinesh Gundu Rao visited a Mohalla Clinic in Delhi.
New Delhi:
Hours after praising the AAP authorities’s Mohalla Clinic initiative, Karnataka Well being Minister and Congress chief Dinesh Gundu Rao on Friday mentioned it’s “overhyped” and he was left “disillusioned” after a go to to 1 such facility.
The Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP), in a press release, alleged that Mr Rao obtained a cellphone name after praising the mohalla clinic initiative and thereafter modified his stance.
Mr Rao alone can make clear why his assertion modified from praising the mohalla clinic to criticising it, the AAP mentioned, including it was “unlucky”.
The Congress and the AAP are members of the opposition INDIA bloc.
On Friday, Mr Rao visited an ‘Aam Aadmi Mohalla Clinic’ at Panchsheel Park in Delhi. He was accompanied by Delhi Well being Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj and Karnataka Bhavan medical officer Karthik, in accordance with an official assertion.
Nearly 4 hours after praising the mohalla clinic initiative, Gundu Rao made a U-turn.
“Visited a mohalla clinic in Delhi with hardly any folks there. Our clinics in Karnataka have extra amenities, together with a laboratory, to do speedy checks for sufferers,” the Congress chief tweeted. “I assume it’s overhyped and I got here again feeling disillusioned,” he mentioned on Twitter.
Through the go to, the Karnataka minister noticed the amenities on the mohalla clinic and enquired concerning the welfare of staffers.
Talking to reporters throughout his go to to the Panchsheel Park mohalla clinic, Mr Rao had praised the mohalla clinic mannequin and mentioned that it’s functioning “very properly”.
“I had heard so much about mohalla clinics and I needed to see them personally. I needed to debate how they (AAP authorities) are implementing the well being insurance policies,” he had advised reporters.
“In southern states corresponding to Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka, well being has at all times been a precedence. Each state has received one thing good that we are able to study from. We’ve one thing related (to mohalla clinics)… we now have ‘namma clinics’. We needed to see how we are able to enhance our system. I noticed the mohalla clinic and it’s functioning very properly Persons are additionally appreciating it,” he had mentioned.
The AAP mentioned the comparability between the mohalla clinic and namma clinic is “unjust”.
“Dinesh Gundu Rao obtained a cellphone name. Following the decision, he talked about an necessary assembly and left the placement. Some time later, he tweeted criticising the mohalla clinic. Nonetheless, solely Dinesh Rao can make clear why his assertion modified from praising the mohalla clinic to criticising it after the cellphone name.
“In his tweet, he claimed that Namma Clinic in Karnataka had higher infrastructure than Mohalla Clinic. To confirm this declare, Aam Aadmi Occasion’s Karnataka staff visited a Namma Clinic in his constituency.
“They discovered that each Namma Clinic and Main Well being Centre had been positioned adjoining to one another. Individuals talked about that the Main Well being Centre had been closed for a very long time. Namma Clinic, in actuality, is only a identify. It was initiated by the BJP authorities. The clinic gives solely main therapy for some sicknesses like fever. Sufferers are referred to different hospitals…,” the AAP mentioned.
The comparability between Namma Clinic and Delhi’s Mohalla Clinic is unjust, the AAP mentioned, including mohalla clinics are well-equipped and therapy is supplied freed from price.
The declare made by Rao that Namma Clinic’s infrastructure is superior to Mohalla Clinic is “false”. Namma Clinic lacks good amenities, it alleged.
The Delhi authorities’s mohalla clinic is a neighbourhood facility for offering free main healthcare to residents. The mohalla clinic programme is among the many flagship initiatives of the Arvind Kejriwal authorities to spice up the first healthcare system in Delhi.
In his interplay with reporters throughout his go to to the Panchsheel Park mohalla clinic, the Congress minister was additionally requested whether or not this go to was deliberate since they’re allies now, to which he mentioned it is a “division” matter and never a “political” one.
“Alliance is a unique problem and a political one. We’ll go to different states. Rajasthan has a well being coverage. It may be a BJP state additionally (the place we are able to go to). That’s the idea of federalism,” he mentioned.
Slamming the BJP-led Centre, he mentioned that it “is making a state of affairs the place this strategy of working collectively is getting misplaced”.
“They have a look at opposition-ruled states as enemies. Politically they offer hassle and so they even hassle the state governments. The (companies) ordinance is overruling folks’s points. In case you weaken an elected authorities it weakens democracy. Change of views is one thing that’s good and must be achieved at all times. I’ve additionally prolonged invitation to Delhi well being minister to see what’s being achieved on numerous fronts (in Karnataka),” he advised reporters.
Mr Bharadwaj mentioned his Karnataka counterpart advised him about how good the hospitals are within the southern state. “We can even go to his state. All states ought to study from one another. I’m very completely happy that they’ve come right here,” he mentioned.
Earlier within the day, quote-tweeting Mr Bharadwaj’s tweets on Gundu Rao’s go to, Mr Kejriwal had mentioned Delhi will study from the great work achieved by the Karnataka authorities.
“Karnataka well being minister visits Delhi mohalla clinics. We welcome him and his staff. All of us should study from one another. Delhi can even study from the great work achieved by Karnataka govt,” he had tweeted.
Presently, there are greater than 500 mohalla clinics within the nationwide capital that provide free main healthcare companies to sufferers, together with 212 various kinds of medical checks.
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