Satyakumar Yadav the blue-eyed boy of former VP Venkaiah Naidu is a happy man. Funds are pouring in for Andhra in the name of Ayush for the development of health infrastructure here.
Satya who is a BJP MLA in AP was the PA to VP Venkaiah for a long time. Now he is a full time politician who is in alliance with the TDP under the leadership of Purandeshwari.
Satya said that he had met the Union AYUSH minister and higher officials in July this year and briefed them about how the department had been neglected during the last five years.
He thanked the Centre for obliging his request.
Yadav said that he sought funds for strengthening the AYUSH department, improving the supply of medicines in AYUSH medical centres, completing of 50-bedded hospitals whose construction was abandoned, construction of dilapidated AYUSH dispensaries, various AYUSH schemes, for government AYUSH colleges, strengthening 126 AYUSHMAN medical centres.
He informed that of the 90 AYUSHMAN centres sent for recognition by the NBH, 89 had been sanctioned. A new Ayurveda College would be constructed at Dharmavaram and a 100-bedded hospital will also be built in association with it.
Briefing about other AYUSH hospitals and colleges, he said that over Rs 20 crore funds would be released towards their construction at identified places in the state.
