Congress leaders made money in guise of improving medical education: Amit Shah

Instead of improving health infrastructure, Congress leaders "made money" in the name of improving medical education facilities, said Home Minister Amit Shah.

While his two-day visit to his home state Gujarat, Home Minister Amit Shah said yesterday, health care facilities in India improved under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whereas Congress leaders “made money” in the name of improving medical education facilities when they were in power prior to 2014.

"Eight years ago, there were 51,348 MBBS seats in India. This has increased to 89,875 in the year 2021-22. The seats for postgraduation medical studies of the degrees like MD and MS have also increased from 31,185 to 60,202,” said Shah.

“Under the Ayushman Bharat Yojana, 60 crore poor people of the country are covered. They are getting free treatment of up to INR 5 lakh. Before this, many poor elderly people could not afford expensive treatment,” he added, as reported by Hindustan Times.

“PM Modi has also allocated INR 64,000 crore to set up the required health infrastructure to implement that scheme. 35,000 new beds were added in hospitals across 600 districts under this scheme,” he further added.

Shah also said that the government plans to start integrated public health laboratories in 730 districts and a budget of INR 1,600 crore has been allocated to start research centres.

In Gujarat, he laid the foundation stone of 150-bed hospital managed under Kamdar Vima Yojana and performed groundbreaking of 750-bed Adarsh Multi Specialty Hospital managed by Umia Mata Kadwa Patidar Education Trust at Kalol in Gandhinagar district.

"In the next two years, modern health services will be available at the doorsteps to the citizens of Kalol and surrounding areas," he added.

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