Health Minister Dinesh Gundurao visits mohalla clinic in Delhi
New Delhi (PTI): Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundurao on Friday visited an 'Aam Aadmi Mohalla' clinic at Panchsheel Park here.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the governments of Delhi and Karnataka can learn from each other.
Gundurao was accompanied by Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj and Karnataka Bhavan medical officer Karthik, an official statement said.
The Karnataka minister saw the facilities at the clinic and enquired about the welfare of the staff, it said.
The Delhi government's mohalla clinic is neighbourhood facility for providing free primary healthcare to residents. Mohalla clinics are one of the flagship initiatives of the Arvind Kejriwal government to boost the primary healthcare system in Delhi.
Rao praised the mohalla clinic model and said that it is functioning "very well".
"I had heard a lot about mohalla clinics and I wanted to see them. I wanted to discuss how they (AAP govt) are implementing health policies," he told reporters.
"In southern states like Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka, health has always been a priority. Every state has got something good that we can learn from. We have something similar (to mohalla clinics)... we have namma clinics. We wanted to see how we can improve our system," he said.
Bharadwaj said Gundurao told him about how good the hospitals are in Karnataka.
"We will also visit their state. All states should learn from each other. I am very happy that they have come here," he said.
Kejriwal, in a tweet, said, "Karnataka health minister visits Delhi mohalla clinics. We welcome him and his team. We all have to learn from each other. Delhi will also learn from the good work done by Karnataka govt."
Currently, there are more than 500 mohalla clinics in the national capital that offer free primary healthcare services to patients, including 212 different types of medical tests.
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US VP JD Vance says Lebanon not part of ceasefire, calls it ‘misunderstanding’
Budapest/Washington: US Vice President J D Vance has said that Lebanon was never included in the ceasefire understanding with Iran, describing the confusion as a “legitimate misunderstanding”.
Speaking to reporters before departing from Hungary, Vance said, “I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon and it just didn’t. We never made that promise.”
He stressed that the United States had not included Lebanon in the scope of the ceasefire at any stage.
His remarks come amid continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon, where more than 200 people were reported killed, even as ceasefire talks between Iran and the US move forward.
Vance said Israel had “offered … to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful”.
He warned that if Iran allows the situation in Lebanon to affect the negotiations, it could derail the talks.
“If Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire, that’s ultimately their choice,” he said.
