AP to Be Made Cancer-Free State Under Aarogya Andhra Pradesh: Satya Yadav
Vijayawada: Health Minister Satya Kumar Yadav has said the government would take action against “the corruption and illegalities” in the Arogyasri health scheme during YSR Congress term.
“The state will be transformed as Aarogya-Andhra Pradesh and our aim is a cancer-free state,” he said after taking charge of his departments at the Secretariat in Velagapudi on Sunday.
The minister said steps would be taken to provide better medical services along the lines of AIIMS in all government hospitals. “We would provide the necessary staff and improve the infrastructure.”
The minister said that every year, on average, 48,000 people died of cancer in AP. My first signature was given today to provide screening to 5.30 crore people for the prevention of oral, breast and cervical cancers and to spread awareness among the people. Steps will be taken to impart necessary training to ANMs, ASHA and others through the Homi Baba Cancer Institute.
He said nearly `600 crore was spent in the last financial year under the Arogyasri scheme to control cancer across the state.
His second signature on Sunday was on a file for screening all students under the age of 18, under the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Programme to help prevent the students from getting sick.
The minister said the youth in the state were getting addicted to ganja and drugs on a large scale. Strict action would be taken against those responsible for this and de-addiction centres will be set up to bring a change among the youth addicted to drugs.
Yadav said the funds of National Health Mission and other centrally-sponsored schemes had been diverted by the previous government. The implementation of the Arogyasri scheme was also not done properly by the YSRC government.
He said the grant of a medical college in the state was done in a hasty manner without following the guidelines of the National Medical Council, without developing the affiliated hospitals and without providing the infrastructure.
Health Chief Secretary Krishnababu, commissioner Venkateswar, Health Director Dr Padmavathi, Medical Education Director Dr Narasimha Rao, AP MSIDC managing Director Muralidhara Reddy, Aarogyasri Trust CEO Lakshmisha, Health University VC Babji, registrar Radhika Reddy and many officials and staff congratulated the minister.
