Govt has abdicated public welfare: Sharmila

Kasibugga (Srikakulam Dt):  Aug 2, 2013: Coming down heavily on Kiran Kumar Reddy-led Congress Government for neglecting the YSR-introduced 108 Ambulance services, Smt. Y.S. Sharmila charged the Government of throwing away the public health to the winds.

Smt. Sharmila was addressing people after inspecting the abandoned 108 vehicles parked in a roadside shed at Chinadabam village in Palasa assembly constituency of Srikakulam district on Thursday.

“If this is the situation in the constituency of the health minister Kondru Murali, we can imagine the plight of the health services across the state,” she said after listening to the complaints of the villagers.

The villagers told her that three out of the four 108 Ambulance vehicles in the constituency were abandoned and lying idle as no one took up their repairs. She said it is atrocious on part of the state Government to have watered down the Arogya Sri Scheme and the 108 Ambulance services.

It is unfortunate that the welfare schemes introduced by Dr. YSR have been diluted by the present Government which has no concern for the people.

The 108 staff, who met Smt. Sharmila, complained that their demands for timely payment of salaries and introducing the 8-hour working day have gone unheard by the management and Government. “Rather, we are being implicated in cases as we are on strike,” they told her.