Aizawl, April 6 -- The Mizoram unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has strongly criticised the Mizoram Universal Health Care Scheme (MUHCS) rolled out by the Zoram People's Movement (ZPM) government, describing it as an "unfortunate health care scheme" that merely rides on the framework of the Central government's Ayushman Bharat - Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY).
Speaking at a party workers' meeting on Friday, senior BJP leader and one of the party's two MLAs in the 40-member state Assembly, Dr K. Beichhua, launched a blistering critique of the Lalduhoma-led government's flagship health scheme. He alleged that the government had empanelled 20 hospitals outside the state and six within Mizoram under MUHCS without signing ...