LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday accused the Samajwadi Party (SP) of criticising the health sector in the state and said the SP should recall the situation in its regime.

In response to an accusation made by Samajwadi Party opposition leader Akhilesh Yadav in the state assembly, Yogi Adityanath said that the SP has been in power four times, and statistics show that there has been an increase in mother and child mortality rates during that time.

"In the past, encephalitis used to cause 1,200 to 1,500 deaths annually in eastern Uttar Pradesh. Due to the double engine government's coordinated efforts, the death rate has now reached zero" he added.

The Samajwadis have mastered the skill of preaching to others, the Chief Minister said.  "Primary health care facilities in the SP regimes were in danger of closing because to a lack of doctors. We have sped up emergency service response times and are working to implement the one district, one medical college policy." Akhilesh has before brought up the issue of insufficient medical care, citing a recent instance in which a man brought his child from Sitapur to Lucknow in need of oxygen.

He said that the episode served as an illustration of the state of the healthcare industry.

He claimed that government hospitals lacked ambulances, stretchers, and medications, and that government doctors had a policy of sending patients to private hospitals.

Akhilesh also brought up the subject of fatalities in detention and brought up the recent occurrence in Gonad where a power worker passed away while in police custody.

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