Congress would raise the issue of empanelment of unregistered hospitals in the Atal Ayushman Uttarakhand Yojana (AAUY) in the State Assembly during its upcoming session.
Informing, the state Congress president Pritam Singh said on Wednesday that inclusion of unregistered hospitals in the AAUY is shocking and the Congress would raise it in the Assembly during the upcoming session.
Notably, ‘The Pioneer’ in its edition dated January 23 published a story on the empanelment of hospitals not registered under Clinical Establishments Act in the AAUY being implemented by the state government.
Pritam Singh also claimed that the golden card holders of the scheme are not getting treatment for some kinds of illnesses in many of the empanelled hospitals.
Echoing the same, the Congress vice- president Surya Kant Dhasmana said that the matter revealed the apathetic manner in which the state government is executing the project.
“The patients are suffering everywhere in the state and the empanelment of unregistered hospitals under the scheme is another instance of the election-driven though apathetic functioning of the state government,” he said.
He further said that many private hospitals which are empanelled under AAUY are not entertaining patients under the scheme.
“This is unfortunate for the hapless patients of the state,” he added.
The state Congress spokesperson Garima Dassauni said that it shows the indifference of the state government towards the health of the people of the state. “The Clinical Establishments Act was passed in the state Assembly following which the Congress government implemented it in 2016,” she said.
Invoking the High Court ruling, she said that the state government had asked the state government to seal all such hospitals and clinics which are not registered under the act. “ But in clear violation of the court’s order, the hospitals which are not registered under the act are being empanelled in the Atal Ayushman Uttarakhand Yojana,’’ she said. The Congress spokesperson further said that apparently the government is not concerned on aspects like infrastructure, staff employed, and their qualification, number of beds and waste disposal mechanism which is very serious.
The Pioneer in its report had mentioned that only nine out of 42 empanelled hospitals in Dehradun have permanent registration number under Clinical Establishments Act. Similarly, two hospitals which have been empanelled in the dream scheme of the chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat have not bothered to even apply for registration under the act.