Mamata Banerjee Requests Release Of Health Funds In 2-Page Letter To PM
NDTV
Withholding of fund release would adversely deprive the poor people of their benefit, said Mamata Banerjee.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to intervene to remove the colour branding conditionalities for health and wellness centres and release National Health Mission (NHM) funds to Bengal.
Withholding of funds by the Centre will deprive the poor of their health benefits, she said in her two-page letter to the prime minister.
"It is most unfortunate that very recently, I am informed that the Union ministry of health and family welfare has withheld fund release under the National Health Mission to West Bengal due to non-compliance with certain colour branding guidelines for health and wellness centres, despite other conditionalities being fulfilled. The withholding of fund release would adversely deprive the poor people of their benefit," she wrote.
