The president of the state of Praja Arogya Vedika, KVS Sai Prasad (center), along with other members, launches a poster for the next state seminar, in Vijayawada on Tuesday.
The health of a society depends on the health of an individual, but it is unfortunate that medical care becomes increasingly inaccessible for people day by day, Praja Arogya Vedika (PAV) Prasad said Tuesday.
Going to the media together with the general secretary of the District of Pav’s NTR, G. Vijay Prakash in Vijayawada, Dr. Ir. Sai Prasad highlighted the alarming tendency that the poor push poverty due to the deterioration of government health quality and increased privatization in the medical sector.
He criticized the establishment of 10 new governmental medical universities in the State in the public private association mode and called it “cruel.”
He said: “The establishment of a Super Specialty Hospital in each Constitution of the Assembly in the same way is equally more cruel. The privatization of the medical sector must stop immediately. The poor bear of the privatization of medical universities.” He added that the number of doctors oriented to services will decrease in this model, since it would be business.
Listing other consequences, Dr. Sai Prasad said that medical expenses would increase, the number of doctors in government hospitals will decrease and treatments would become more expensive.
Dr. Vijay Prakash said that the right to health is a fundamental right of each citizen and that the State must implement a law, in the lines of the Rajastan Health Law, 2022.
Later, doctors published a poster for a seminar that is organizing the Praja Arogya Vedika on April 20 in Vijayawada, on the impact of the privatization of medical education in the state.
Published – April 15, 2025 11:18 pm ist