Unhappy with the conditions of recently unveiled National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS) 'Modicare', Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has announced that Bengal will not contribute to the world's largest healthcare scheme. CM Banerjee accused the Central government of taking unilateral decisions and said the state will not waste its hard-earned resources to contribute its share to the programme. Speaking on the scheme, CM said as per the financial conditions of the plan, states have to contribute 40% of the fund. "Why we should spend on Centre's programme if Bengal already has its own. We will launch our new health programme if we have the resources," CM Mamata Banerjee retorted. She gave the example of Swasthya Sathi programme, a healthcare scheme by Bengal government, under which 50 lakh people already had been enrolled by the state.
