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Akhilesh Yadav attacks UP government over healthcare, promises free treatment
Akhilesh Yadav said Uttar Pradesh’s public healthcare system has too few doctors and medical workers.
He claimed that many jobs in government hospitals are empty.
He also said some health centres had been reduced in number.
According to him, this makes it harder for people to get care.
He said patients are spending too much money on treatment and medicines.
Yadav promised that a future Samajwadi Party government would provide free care and medicines to poor people.
Patients would not need to show a special card.
He said the promise would include serious illnesses such as cancer.
Akhilesh Yadav alleged that 41% of posts in Uttar Pradesh government hospitals were vacant.
He claimed more than 24,000 nursing and paramedical positions were unfilled across the state.
Yadav said there was one doctor for every 16,000 people in Uttar Pradesh.
He alleged that primary health centres had declined in several districts, including Gorakhpur.
Yadav promised free treatment and medicines for poor patients without requiring a card if the Samajwadi Party returns to power.
- Who
- Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav made the allegations and policy promise.
- What
- Yadav criticized Uttar Pradesh’s healthcare system and promised free treatment and medicines for poor people under a future Samajwadi Party government.
- Where
- At the Samajwadi Party headquarters in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
- When
- Saturday, August 29; the year is not specified in the article.
- Why
- He said shortages of doctors, nursing staff and paramedics, vacant hospital posts, reduced health centres and rising treatment costs were harming patients.
Key facts
- Vacant nursing and paramedical posts
- More than 24,000, according to Yadav.
- Vacant government hospital posts
- Yadav claimed 41% were vacant in Uttar Pradesh.
- Doctor-to-population ratio
- Yadav claimed there was one doctor for every 16,000 people.
- Vacancies at AIIMS Gorakhpur
- Yadav claimed 604 posts were vacant.
- Vacancies at AIIMS Rae Bareli
- Yadav claimed 579 posts were vacant.
- Proposed benefit
- Free treatment and medicines for poor patients, without requiring a card.
- Illnesses covered
- The proposal would include routine and serious illnesses, including cancer.
Quotes
Akhilesh Yadav
Samajwadi Party president and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister
“In the future, when the Samajwadi government is formed, no card will be asked for. A patient will come, and his treatment and medicines will be free”
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“When the Chief Minister is reducing the number of health centres in his own district, imagine what the situation would be elsewhere”
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Sources
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