Delhi Government officially inaugurated the free surgery scheme across a range of private hospitals for the citizens of Delhi. Praising the schemes of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Government in the education and health sector, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that the city Government is dedicated to do revolutionary work in the field of healthcare and education in order to facilitate both the poor and rich. He was speaking at the Talkatora Stadium on Saturday.
Kejriwal along with Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Health Minister Satyender Jain were present during the inauguration workshop which was primarily organised to create awareness about the particular health scheme among the doctors and officials of Delhi Government hospitals.
Terming the move historic, the Chief Minister said that the city Government’s decision to revamp education and health in Delhi has started yielding good results and the recently declared CBSE results of Class X and XII are the outcome of the efforts taken by his Government.
“I inspected about 50 hospitals across the city and enquired about the services being offered to the patient. I found that 90 to 95 per cent patients were satisfied with the services and this is a great change. But we found that one of the three schemes we launched was not even known to doctors. They were not informed that patients can be referred to private hospitals in case of long waiting list for surgery so we decided to organise workshop,” he said.
He said, we (Government) have initiated several steps to improve health and education in two years and now it is bearing the fruits.
“Some people advised us to fund the Government hospital to improve the functioning instead spending huge money on treatment of residents but the fact is that it will take years to build infrastructure of the hospitals till then the temporary treatment facility is being provided so that no one has to wait for surgeries for long,” Kejriwal added.
He further said that the Government has also decided to provide free medicines in hospitals and the stock would be monitored every 15 days.
“Taking steps to reduce the gap between rich and poor, we decided to provide medicines in hospitals where the patient is being treated and I am monitoring the stock in every 15 days. Our intention is to provide basic amenities to everyone,” he said.