Swasthya Sathi Scam: What TMC Left Behind

Key Takeaways: What the Swasthya Sathi Scam Raises

• The Bardhaman nursing-home controversy has exposed reported discrepancies between treatment records and Swasthya Sathi packages in 14 audited cases.
• Consumer organisations have raised allegations of inflated bills, questionable use of doctors' names and unnecessary procedures.
• The Health Minister has announced a forensic audit and referred to suspected fake cards, beneficiaries, diseases, doctors and hospitals.
• More than 25–30 lakh beneficiary records have reportedly raised questions during verification. These figures are preliminary and do not establish that every record is fraudulent.
• The CAG had already flagged weaknesses involving beneficiary documentation, hospital grading, expenditure and claim monitoring.
• The RG Kar tragedy, recruitment controversy and coal-smuggling investigations raise wider questions about institutional accountability during the TMC years.
• The government must identify actual fraud, recover money wherever fraudulent payments are established and protect genuine patients from losing their healthcare benefits.

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