The ‘Ayushman Bhava’ campaign has been started simultaneously in the entire country, including Prayagraj, on Wednesday. It was launched in virtual mode by President Draupadi Murmu which was telecast live across the country simultaneously. Under this campaign a special fortnight will be run from September 17 to October 2. Chief Medical Officer (CMO Dr Ashu Pandey gave complete information about the scheme to mediapersons here. He said this will be run as a special campaign from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday i.e. September 17 to Gandhi Jayanti October 2. In this the department team will go door to door and special attention will be given to the health of common people as well as cleanliness etc. This campaign was launched from Tej Bahadur Sapru (Beli) Hospital in Prayagraj. MLA Harshvardhan Bajpai, Mayor Ganesh Kesarwani, CMO Dr Ashu Pandey, Principal of Motilal Nehru Medical College Dr SP Singh, CMS of the hospital Dr. Sharda Chaudhary and other officials were present.
The Ayushman Bharat (Pradhan Jan Arogya Yojana) will be expanded under Ayushman Aapke Dwar 3.0. Besides, weekly health fair will be organised at health and wellness centres and community health centres. Information related to organisation of blood donation camp and voluntary blood donation will be given. Besides information will be given for voluntary organ donation and pledge will be taken for the same. Ayushman Sabha will be organized in all the villages on October 2. In this Ayushman card will be distributed, ABHA ID creation and information about health related schemes will be given.
Lawyers continue to boycott work : Working in the Allahabad High Court remained paralysed on Wednesday as the lawyers continued to boycott the judicial work on a call given by the Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh, the apex body of the lawyers of the state, in protest against the cane charge on lawyers at Hapur district court. Apart from the high court, lawyers at Prayagraj’s district court, Central Administrative Tribunal, Debt Recovery Tribunal, Company Law Tribunal, Board of Revenue court and all other judicial forums also boycotted the judicial work. The police had allegedly lathicharged lawyers on August 29 at Hapur district court when they were returning after protesting the registration of a case against a woman advocate and her father around a week ago. The lawyers across the state had been boycotting the judicial work since then on a call given by the bar council. The working in all courts across the state, including Allahabad High Court, and its Lucknow Bench has also come to standstill since then. According to two ex-office-bearers of high court bar association (HCBA), Ashutosh Tripathi and Santosh Kumar Mishra, there is resentment among the lawyers across the state as the government has not taken any action on the demands made by the bar council till date.