Bhubaneswar: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday urged different private hospitals to refrain from stopping treatment to poor patients by creating confusion on Odisha government’s Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana (BSKY).
BJP’s Odisha unit president Manmohan Samal said that complaints are being received about various private hospital refusing treatment to patients under the scheme.
“Some private hospitals of the state are returning patients without providing treatment saying that the BSKY has been closed. This is very unfortunate,” Samal said in a statement.
Stating that patients and diseases have no caste, religion or political parties, the BJP leader said it is the priority of every government to provide health services to the common citizens.
Describing change of government as a continuous process, Samal said it is a crime to create confusion in people’s minds and deprive them of medical services.
The BJP leader urged the administration to look into such social crimes and to provide health services to the people of the state under the scheme.
Earlier in the day, Samal said that BSKY would be replaced with the Ayushman Bharat scheme after BJP forms government in the state.
