Jagan promises free medical treatment to ailing farmer and two children of a tailor
The Hindu
While the farmer is suffering from brain tumour, the children are down with severe anaemia and oncology issues
Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Saturday promised free medical treatment to a farmer suffering from brain tumour and two children of a tailor who were down with severe anaemia and oncology issues.
Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s assurance came when the family members of the patients approached him while he was about to leave Pulivendula on conclusion of his two-day visit to his native Kadapa district.
Siva Jyothi, wife of the farmer named Jagan Mohan Reddy, from Gugudu village of Narpala mandal in Anantapur district, along with her three daughters aged below 10, met the Chief Minister and sought medical assistance for her husband who was undergoing treatment for brain tumour in a Bengaluru-based hospital.
Ms. Jyothi, in a memorandum, told the Chief Minister that she had so far spent several lakhs of rupees for the treatment and that she required ₹20 lakh more.
The Chief Minister directed the district administration to sanction her ₹2 lakh immediately and promised that all expenses towards her husband’s treatment would be borne by the government.
A tailor, Siva Kumar, of Pulivendula, in his memorandum, told the Chief Minister that his two sons aged 8 and 5 were suffering from severe anaemia and oncology issues.
As treatment for it was not being offered under YSR Aarogyasri, he said they were admitted to a Hyderabad-based hospital.
While residents are worried over deaths due to diarrhoea in Vijayawada, officials still grapple to find the root cause. Contaminated drinking water supplied by VMC officials is the reason, insist people in the affected areas, but officials insist that efforts are on to identify the disease and that those with symptoms other than diarrhoea too are visiting the health camps.