Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann and Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia promised to provide free and quality medical treatment in HP, on Thursday
- August 26, 2022
- Updated: 09:44 am
DW BUREAU / Una
The Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday promised to provide free and quality medical treatment to people if voted to power in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly polls later this year.
This is the second "guarantee" given by the party, a week after it promised to develop state schools on the lines of Delhi besides regularising temporary teachers and filling vacant posts.
On Thursday, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia while addressing a public meeting in Una district said if voted to power, the AAP government will provide fee medicines and tests.
Operations will be conducted free of cost by specialist doctors, they said.
Mohalla clinics will be opened on the lines of Delhi and Punjab while government hospitals will be made better than private hospitals, the leaders said.Every state resident injured in an accident will be treated free of cost, they added.
The party also promised to provide Rs 1 crore to next of the kin of those Army jawans who die in the line of duty.
Earlier, Manish Sisodia said CBI and ED raids should be conducted on the houses of those leaders who did not build quality schools and hospitals in the past 75 years.
But they are raiding the houses of those who are building better schools and hospitals, he said.
Mann said 75 Mohalla Clinics were opened in Punjab on the pattern of Delhi on Independence Day and a large number of people got themselves checked there.
It seems Mohalla Clinics will have to be run in two shifts, he claimed.
Talking about PM Narendra Modi's recent statement on freebies, Mann said that Delhi government was paying back to the public its money by providing free bus services to women, free medical treatment and education.
The Aam Aadmi Party, which is trying to make a foray into the state's politics, is currently ruling the neighbouring Punjab and Delhi.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann urged people of Himachal Pradesh to support AAP for getting access to quality health services.
Addressing the gathering while promising second guarantee of health to the people of Himachal Pradesh here today, the Chief Minister, accompanied by Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, said that Himachal has lagged behind in health sector in last 75 years. Citing an example, he said that serious patients from Una and other parts of Himachal still don't have adequate health facilities and have to travel till Chandigarh in case of serious ailment. Bhagwant Mann said that this need to be changed for which AAP should be voted to people.
The Chief Minister said that Mohalla clinics in Delhi and Aam Aadmi clinics in Punjab are providing world class health care services to people. He said that people are being offered 41 packages with around 100 clinical tests free of cost in these Aam Aadmi Clinics. Bhagwant Mann said that 90% of patients are treated from these clinics only thereby reducing the burden in hospitals.
The Chief Minister said that state government has opened 100 such clinics across the state which have received huge response from general public. Bhagwant Mann further said that only the serious patients with major ailments are further referred to the big hospitals. He said that this is a revolutionary step which will be replicated in Himachal too after formation of AAP government.
The Chief Minister said that both Congress and BJP have looted people and used their money for vested interests.
(editor@dailyworld.in)