Hard look at Aarogyasri - Private Doctors healthy and people unhealthy

The National Sample Survey pointed out that 1,10,000 people who needed some medical care or the other every day in Andhra Pradesh chose to go without treatment. Another 17,500 people visited hospitals both in the private and public sector and a majority of them met the expenditure on treatment out of their pocket.

Lets also take a look budget allocations for aarogyasri ?

1. 2008- 1200 crores
2. 2009- 1325 crores
3. 2010 - 1000+ crores
4. 2011 - 900 crores ( due to some newly inttroduced taxes on Arogyasri) .

It accounts to 5000 crores in the last four years.
The recent proposal for a super speciality hospital in Mangalagiri cost 100 crores.
If some one has vision really "for the people " - then in this four years  with 5000 crores budget , there should have been 50 superspeciality hospitals with 2 for each district.
It would have been a tremendous from government to provide superspeciality treatment to people.
Let us not worry about operational costs - it is investing 1000 crores every year anyway..

In the present scenario where is all this money going ? - This money is going private SS Hospitals .

• There are have been complaints that the docrots are resorting to surgeries even for smaller things for drawing more money.
• There is atleast 15% fake arogyasri withdrawls on fake names.
• There are reports that Some sections of private doctors forming a syndicate are ensuring some key diseases not covered in the state.

If Government has any means of integrity for ensuring proper health of the people - it should bring the aarogysri under the  government cloud and not leave the private people for squeezing the money.

• Also aarogyasri should be extended to all the people - irrespective of caste, religion and commericial viability for it is need for everyone especially " middle class " where there is no mercy shown by anybody and they are forced live with the cost of living at par with a higher society.
• It should also bring locality into consideration - where areas like Nalgonda struggling with poor sanity and prone to have bone and kidney issues should be brought under the coverage. Bring knee surgeries for the old under this.

Government - IF you want to bring a welfare scheme , bring welfare to the needy people and not to fill your politician's pockets.