YSRCP refutes liquor policy-disease link, says allegations aimed at maligning Jagan Mohan Reddy

Amaravati: V Rajini, YSRCP chief and extinct health minister, has acknowledged sure allegations towards the catch collectively’s liquor protection while it used to be within the ruling saddle in Andhra Pradesh were fake and politically motivated. Rajini acknowledged that linking liver and kidney diseases to the YSRCP’s liquor protection used to be baseless, intended to malign YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s erstwhile authorities and deflect attention from screw ups.

In response to a file by an knowledgeable panel, Andhra Pradesh has registered a staggering 100 per cent expand within the circumstances of alcohol-related liver diseases at some stage within the tenure of Reddy-led YSRCP in 2019-2024 as when put next to the sooner 5 years. The 3-member panel, which the Chandrababu Naidu authorities constituted to analyse the disease burden in Andhra, aged the legit health recordsdata from Arogyasri, a flagship blueprint to execute quality healthcare products and companies to the uncomfortable.

“The coalition (the ruling NDA govt) is twisting info and misusing health recordsdata to unfold deliberate lies. Our (erstwhile YSRCP) authorities worked to curb alcohol spend, ensured safer law, and invested in public health, unlike their (TDP-led) regime, which fuelled unchecked liquor gross sales,” acknowledged Rajini in a unlock.

The extinct health minister acknowledged that liquor gross sales allegedly dropped from four crore to three crore liquor circumstances (carton box) from 2018 to 19 and 2023-24, while beer gross sales fell from 3 crore to 1 crore.

The YSRCP chief alleged that the NDA coalition authorities peddles falsehoods, ignoring its file, while Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu ‘launched’ 200 liquor producers, flooding the market with unknown ones.

In distinction, Reddy retained producers already present at some stage in his regime, acknowledged Rajini.

A Chennai-based lab and others licensed quality and Competition Price of India (CCI) confirmed compliance and no deaths came about attributable to illicit liquor at some stage within the outdated YSRCP regime, he acknowledged.

Rajini claimed that the YSRCP curbed alcohol usage by regulating outlets, reducing timings, and abolishing 43,000 alleged belt outlets (illegal liquor outlets).

He alleged that the TDP-led authorities misinterprets health recordsdata, falsely linking diseases to liquor, while ignoring that every day life factors play a more valuable procedure.

Below Reddy’s regime, the diseases covered below Aarogyasri (free healthcare blueprint) raised from 1,059 to 3,254; 108 and 104 ambulances elevated from 622 to 2,204, bettering emergency catch entry to.

The erstwhile YSRCP authorities addressed extreme workers shortages in authorities hospitals by recruiting over fifty three,000 healthcare workers, which improved products and companies across the divulge, he acknowledged.

Despite a 61 per cent national scarcity of specialist scientific doctors, the divulge diminished it to 4 per cent. Nurse and lab technician shortages, at 27 per cent and 33 per cent nationally, dropped to zero in Andhra Pradesh, he added.

(With Inputs from PTI)