Former Chief Minister and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday slammed the Central authorities over the Ayushman Bharat scheme. Talking to the media, Kejriwal claimed that the CAG has flagged irregularities within the scheme and Delhi has higher healthcare schemes than Ayushman Bharat. Kejriwal claimed that individuals get free therapy in Delhi even when the therapy prices shoot as much as Rs 20 lakhs or extra.
Kejriwal’s response got here a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi rued lack of implementation of the central authorities’s well being scheme in Delhi and West Bengal.
Earlier, the Aam Aadmi Occasion on Wednesday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his comment that the Delhi and West Bengal governments haven’t carried out the Ayushman Bharat medical insurance scheme out of “political pursuits”. Addressing a public gathering in New Delhi’s All India Institute of Ayurveda on Tuesday, Modi mentioned, “I apologise to all of the aged aged above 70 years in Delhi and West Bengal. I hear your ache, however because of the state authorities’s choices, I can’t provide help to.”
At a press convention on Wednesday, get together spokesperson Priyanka Kakkar termed the Ayushman Bharat medical insurance scheme a “rip-off” and mentioned the PM ought to examine the Delhi well being mannequin.
“Well being is a crucial subject for the Aam Aadmi Occasion. We now have offered such a mannequin of well being that Kofi Annan (former United Nations Secretary-Basic) appreciated us, and PM Modi has offered a rip-off beneath Ayushman Bharat… The CAG has to discuss this fraud,” Kakkar mentioned.
Prime Minister Modi ought to look at Arvind Kejriwal’s Delhi well being mannequin and apply it to the entire nation, she added.
The spokesperson claimed that out of 27,000 hospitals included in Ayushman Bharat, 7,000 solely exist on paper and 4,000 hospitals haven’t admitted any sufferers beneath the scheme.
