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AP: YSRCP Doctors Wing seeks support of MPs to protect 17 Govt. medical colleges from being handed over to corporates

Vijayawada, Nov 11 (UNI) YSRCP NTR District Doctors Wing Chairman, Prof. Dr. Ambati Naga Radhakrishna Yadav has sought the support of Members Parliament to protect the 17 medical colleges from being handed over to the private corporate.

Dr. Yadav has written letters to 400 Members of Parliament of both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha seeking their urgent intervention to "protect" the 17 Government Medical Colleges in Andhra Pradesh from being handed over to private Corporates.

In the letter, Dr. Yadav requested the MPs to raise the issue on the floor of Parliament, demand a Central review and audit of the PPP and VGF decisions, and demand an immediate halt to the transfer of these colleges.
The letter recalls that between 2020-2022, the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy headed YSRCP Government took a historic decision to establish 17 new Government Medical Colleges, one for every Parliamentary Constituency, with a sanction of Rs. 8,480 crores of public money at Rs 500 crores per college, on approximately 50 acres with an attached 650-bed teaching hospital, with the sole aim of adding 2,550 fully Government MBBS seats.

On 15th September 2023, five colleges at Vizianagaram, Rajahmundry, Eluru, Machilipatnam and Nandyal were inaugurated in a single day and classes began with 750 Government seats, five more colleges at Pulivendula, Paderu, Adoni, Madanapalle and Markapuram were brought to near completion, and more than Rs. 1,550 crores of public funds had already been invested to create these national assets, Dr. Yadav explained.
“The Naidu headed present coalition Government, instead of completing this noble mission in the public sector, has chosen to surrender these ready public assets to private corporates under the guise of PPP and VGF, by leasing prime Government land of approximately 50 acres per college, over 835 acres in total, for a nominal Rs. 100 to Rs. 5,200 per acre per year for 66 long years, by showering private operators with over Rs. 1,630 crores of Viability Gap Funding including Rs. 1,468 crores approved in principle from the Centre,” Dr. Yadav revealed.

He explained in the letter that they would collect huge fees, and by introducing 50% management quota seats which force the poor meritorious students to pay lakhs of rupees or abandon their dream and convert teaching hospitals meant for free treatment into commercial corporate hospitals.
Dr. Yadav appealed to the MPs to stand as the voice of lakhs of poor students, parents, doctors and patients of Andhra Pradesh who are looking towards Parliament with hope.
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