New Delhi March 18:
The state government was lauded by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Washington Post for its tough measures in the fight against corona and the provision of jumbo health facilities in the shortest possible time. Shrikant Shinde has done it. During the Lok Sabha session, participating in the discussion organized for the grant demand for the year 2021-22 under the jurisdiction of the Union Ministry of Health and Family kalyan, MP Dr. Commenting on various issues, Shinde said that the Center was hurting the Maharashtra State Government.
MP Dr. These issues raised by Shrikant Shinde
1. On the other hand, without increasing the central health budget by 137 per cent, Rs. 6,000 to Rs. 71,000 crore.
2. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Washington Post have lauded the Maharashtra government for its efforts in combating the global epidemic of corona by increasing the number of tests, increasing contact tracing and providing jumbo healthcare facilities in the shortest possible time. .
3. Maharashtra’s recovery rate is over 91% and 10 million tests have been done so far. Under the vaccination campaign, more than 33 per cent of the people in the state have been vaccinated, which is much higher than in Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat.
4. During the discussion, the Maharashtra State Government drew attention to the demands made to the Center regarding vaccination. Minister of State for Health. Mr. Rajesh Tope has demanded a dose of 2.20 crore vaccines from the central government, which could vaccinate about 5 lakh people in the state every day to curb the rising corona infection in the state. However, the central government has so far given 69 lakh doses to the Maharashtra government and the state still needs 2.84 crore doses and it should be completed as soon as possible, he demanded.
5. While the Maharashtra state government has asked the Union Ministry of Health to start 376 covid vaccination centers in the state, the Union government has sanctioned 209 vaccination centers and the remaining 158 vaccination centers should be sanctioned by the Union Ministry of Health to speed up vaccination drive in the state. He also demanded that it be implemented.
6. While the Union Ministry of Health has demanded a budget of Rs 1.20 lakh crore, a much lower amount of Rs 50,000 crore has been sanctioned, which is only 1.8 per cent of the country’s GDP, which is less than that of neighboring small countries like Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. This ratio is relatively low. He said that in order to make the country a superpower, it was necessary to give more priority to health empowerment of the country.
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