nCongress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that right to health would be included as a key poll promise in the party’s manifesto for the upcoming general elections.
Addressing a function on ‘national convention on health for all’ organised here by a non-government organisation Mayaram Surjan Foundation, Gandhi said health, education and employment would be three key sectors on which the Congress government would focus if it comes to power.
Criticising Ayushman Bharat scheme of the BJP-led government, the Congress president said the insurance-based health schemes could not be a solution as they ensure treatment of only selected health problems. Instead, the need of the hour was to strengthen the public health system, he said. In this regard, he opined, assistance of private sectors would also be needed.
Without adequate budgetary provision, no health care scheme could be successful and hence the Congress government would increase the budgetary provisions on health and education sectors, he further assured in the symposium.
Congress’s Chhattisgarh in-charge P.L. Punia, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, Heath and Panchayat Minister T.S. Singhdeo were also present on this occasion along with specialist doctors and experts from all over the country.
