Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said, the country is going through a transformation in health facilities. <br />''<br />''Addressing a function after laying the foundation stone of a Super Speciality Charitable Global Hospital, second phase of Shivmani Old Age Home and extension of Nursing College at the Shantivan complex of Brahma Kumaris in Abu Road, Rajasthan, Mr.Modi said, in the last nine years, every person in the country has realized that the country's hospitals are also available for him and her and Ayushman Bharat Yojana has played an important role in it. Mr.Modi said, Four crore poor people in the country have taken advantage of this scheme. <br />''<br />''He said, 20 thousand crore rupees have been saved even from the cheap medicines available at Jan Aushadhi Kendras. Mr. Modi said that in the last nine years, unprecedented work has also been done to remove the shortage of doctors, nursing, and health workers in the country. Prime Minister said,&nbsp; on average, one new medical college has come up every month. <br />''<br />''The Prime Minister said that before 2014, there were 50 thousand MBBS seats in the whole country, today there are more than one lakh seats in the country.&nbsp; He said that there were about 30 thousand PG seats in 2014, which have now increased to more than 65 thousand. He said that as many doctors were qualified in the country in seven decades after independence, the same number will be available in the next decade. The Prime Minister said that recently the government has approved 150 new nursing colleges in the country.<br />''<b>&nbsp;</b><br />''Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Modi said that the biggest scam has taken place in the country after independence in the name of poverty alleviation. Addressing a public meeting at Abu Road, he said that with the guarantee of poverty alleviation, the political leaders became richer and the people became poorer.&nbsp; He said that crores of people remained deprived of toilets, bank accounts, roads, and tap water till 2014 due to the fraud of Garibi Hatao. He said that after 2014, the BJP government has exposed the truth of this fraud. More development works have taken place in the last nine years than all the works done by different Congress governments. He said that during this period 50 crore accounts were opened, 10 crore toilets were built, and tap water was supplied to 9 crore people.<br />''<b>&nbsp;</b><br />''The Prime Minister said that when the government launched a campaign to safely evacuate the people of the Hakki-Pikki tribes community trapped in Sudan, the Congress raised questions on it. These people were to be brought out quietly, but due to the hue and cry from the Congress, their identity was revealed.<br />''<b>&nbsp;</b><br />''Referring to the Congress government in Rajasthan, the Prime Minister said that the state has seen an ugly form of political battle in the last five years. He said that the Chief Minister does not trust his MLAs and the MLAs do not trust their Chief Minister. He said that the law and order situation in the state is completely deplorable and criminals are roaming freely. He said that the state government is trying to save criminals to appease some people. Shri Modi also raised questions on the acquittal of the accused in the Jaipur bomb blast. He said that due to weak arguments in this case, the accused were released from jail.<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">Former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, Leader of Opposition in state Assembly Rajendra Rathode, state BJP President C P Joshi, and many other BJP leaders were also present in the public meeting.</span><br />
News On AIR | May 10, 2023 8:20 PM
Rajasthan: PM Modi lays foundation stone of Super Speciality Charitable Global Hospital at Shantivan complex of Brahma Kumaris