New Delhi: Karnataka well being minister Dinesh Gundu Rao, who got here to Delhi Friday to go to mohalla clinics run by the Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) authorities, “appreciated” its functioning, solely to make a whole U-turn later.
Delhi well being minister Saurabh Bhardwaj accompanied Rao throughout his go to to a mohalla clinic at Panchsheel Park space. Rao purportedly mentioned that “it was functioning very nicely” and that he would return to Karnataka to see how he may “enhance the methods there”. A video of this assertion is viral, though ThePrint can not independently confirm its authenticity.
Hours after his go to, nonetheless, Rao tweeted that the mohalla clinic was “overhyped” as he visited a facility with “hardly any individuals there” and added that “he was disenchanted”. “Our clinics in Karnataka have extra services together with a laboratory to do fast exams for sufferers,” Rao tweeted.
Visited a Mohalla Clinic in Delhi with hardly any individuals there.
Our Clinics in Karnataka have extra services together with a laboratory to do fast exams for sufferers.
I suppose it’s overhyped and I got here again feeling disenchanted. pic.twitter.com/z9VywnmB3z
— Dinesh Gundu Rao/ದಿನೇಶ್ ಗುಂಡೂರಾವ್ (@dineshgrao) August 4, 2023
The AAP shot again saying that the Karnataka minister had appreciated the clinic for operating successfully and mentioned he had learnt just a few issues from his go to.
“Nevertheless, in a weird flip of occasions, later Dinesh Gundu Rao acquired a telephone name. Following the decision, he talked about an necessary assembly and left the situation,” the AAP mentioned in a press release. “Some time later, he tweeted criticising the mohalla clinic. Solely Dinesh Gundu Rao can make clear why his assertion modified from praising the Mohalla Clinic to criticising it, after one telephone name.”
ThePrint tried to achieve Rao through calls and messages. This report will probably be up to date if and when a response is acquired.
AAP’s rise in Delhi in 2013 coincided with the autumn of the Congress unit, making them political rivals. Presently, the Congress has no MLAs within the Delhi Meeting.
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Mohalla clinic versus Namma clinic
In its assertion, AAP mentioned {that a} crew from the occasion’s Karnataka unit had visited a ‘Namma Clinic’ in Rao’s constituency — Gandhi Nagar — and located deficiencies in its functioning. Namma clinics are Karnataka’s neighborhood healthcare centres, much like Delhi’s mohalla clinics.
“It’s unlucky that Karnataka’s Well being Minister Shri Dinesh Gundu Rao visited Delhi’s Mohalla Clinic and noticed its world-class services. Subsequently, he tweeted praising Namma Clinic as higher than Mohalla Clinic. Karnataka’s Well being Minister ought to go to Ward 94’s Namma Clinic in his personal constituency and assess the standard of healthcare providers being offered. Namma Clinic has hygiene points, whereas the operations of Mohalla Clinics are monitored by a personal company,” the AAP mentioned.
AAP’s assertion got here after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had welcomed Rao’s go to earlier within the day, tweeting: “We’ve to study from one another.”
Karnataka well being minister visits Delhi mohalla clinics. We welcome him and his crew. All of us need to study from one another. Delhi can even study from the great work performed by Karnataka govt. https://t.co/340dLAALnc
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) August 4, 2023
In the meantime, Rao informed PTI that the way through which mohalla clinics had been being projected was “hyped”. He informed ANI in one other interview that there was “nothing particular” in regards to the mohalla clinic and it was not a “game-changer”.
“I’m not saying that it’s unhealthy, however it’s not like the best way it’s made out to be. That is my private view, and there are different states corresponding to Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Kerala which have a greater mannequin,” he reportedly mentioned.
The mohalla clinic was conceptualised by the AAP-led Delhi authorities to offer main healthcare providers, corresponding to first-aid accidents, dressing of minor wounds and customary sicknesses corresponding to fever. Medical providers in addition to important medicines are offered freed from value, and the clinics present testing services by an empanelled laboratory.
The Kejriwal authorities has ceaselessly promoted its mohalla clinics as considered one of its most important “achievements”.
The AAP is a part of the INDIA alliance of 26 opposition events, together with the Congress. Regardless of stiff opposition from the occasion’s Delhi and Punjab items, the Congress management opted to help the AAP in Parliament towards the ordinance-turned-bill which goals to remove the Delhi authorities’s management over switch and postings of civil servants.
The Invoice was handed within the Lok Sabha earlier this week and is predicted to clear the Rajya Sabha with the help of the YSRCP and the BJD.
(Edited by Uttara Ramaswamy)
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