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Lok Satta disputes claim on Arogyasri

HYDERABAD: Lok Satta Party president Jayaprakash Narayan on Friday refuted government claim that Rajiv Arogyasri, the health insurance scheme, was providing healthcare to all. He maintained that it was making available free tertiary care to a limited number of poor patients at public expense. At a press conference here, he disputed Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s statement that the scheme would cover 90 per cent of the population. Tertiary care catered only to a limited number of people and Dr. Reddy was indulging either in “self-deception” or talking out of ignorance, he asserted. Dr. Narayan said on an average around 80 lakh episodes of illness, ranging from diarrhoea to preventable birth defects, occur every year in the State, most of them warranting medical intervention. On account of the disease burden every year, 30 lakh of the afflicted either sink deeper into poverty or continue to languish.

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Lok Satta disputes claim on Arogyasri

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