VIJAYAWADA: YSRC has written to 400 MPs of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, seeking their intervention to stop AP’s coalition government from handing over 17 government medical colleges in Andhra Pradesh to private corporates under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) and Viability Gap Funding (VGF) models
Prof. Dr Ambati Naga Radhakrishna Yadav, chairman of the YSRC NTR district Doctors wing, said the MPs have been urged to raise the issue in Parliament, seek a central review, and audit of the PPP and VGF decisions, while demanding an immediate halt to the proposed transfer of medical colleges. Dr Radhakrishna Yadav recalled that the Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy government had sanctioned ₹8,480 crore between 2020 and 2022 to establish 17 medical colleges, one in each Parliamentary constituency, creating 2,550 government MBBS seats. Five colleges had been inaugurated in September 2023, while another five had been nearing completion when the YSRC lost power
More than ₹1,550 crore had already been invested, the Doctors wing chairman maintained. He revealed that under the alliance government’s proposal, 835 acres of land would be leased for 66 years at nominal rates, while private operators would receive more than ₹1,630 crore in VGF, including ₹1,468 crore approved in principle by the centre. Dr. Radhakrishna Yadav warned that the proposed 50 per cent management quota and commercialisation of government teaching hospitals would affect poor students and patients. He appealed to MPs from across parties in the country to protect public medical education and healthcare in AP.
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