To strengthen and support the healthcare network across the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a new mission.
On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched one of the largest pan-India schemes to reinforce the healthcare system, Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure.
The mission will stretch for the next four or five years to help and strengthen our country’s healthcare infrastructure.
Apart from the mission, PM has also launched various other development projects worth around ₹5200 crores in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.
Objectives of the mission
The Prime Minister’s mission has three main objectives to address to fill the different gaps in the country’s healthcare infrastructure.
Firstly, the mission aims to develop elaborate diagnostics and treatment facilities in rural and urban areas.
It will support 17,788 healthcare and wellness centers in ten fundamental and high focus states. Moreover, 11,024 urban healthcare and wellness centers will be established in all the states.
Facilities like free medical consultation, free tests, and free medicines will be available here. The hospital blocks will work exclusively to provide high-end services to patients in need.
For severe and critical conditions, 35,000 new acute care-related beds get added in 600 districts. The remaining districts get covered through referral services where.
Labs to monitor
The second aspect of this mission is for the testing network for the diagnosis of diseases.
Under this objective, necessary infrastructures get built to diagnose and monitor conditions to not transform into deadly viruses.
Seven hundred thirty districts of the country will have integrated public health labs, and 3000 blocks will have block public health units.
Five Regional National Centres for Disease Control, 20 metropolitan departments, and 15 BSL labs will further consolidate the healthcare structure.
Research institutes
Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission also aims to expand the existing research institutions that study pandemics.
Eighty viral diagnostic and research labs will be strengthened; and15 biosafety level labs will be operationalized.
Additionally, four new National Institutes of Virology and a National Institute for One Health are promised to develop.
Other initiatives
On the same day, PM Modi had also virtually inaugurated nine medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh from Siddharthnagar.
The government has spent Rs.two thousand three hundred twenty-nine crores on building these medical schools in Siddharthnagar, Hardoi, Etah, Pratapgarh, Fatehpur, Deoria, Ghazipur Mirzapur, and Jaunpur districts.
Eight colleges have been sanctioned under a centrally sponsored scheme to establish new medical schools attached to the communities or referral hospitals.
The state government has made the college in Jaunpur operative through its resources.
The World Health Organisation regional research platform for South Asia will also support the initiative and further help strengthens this network.
Services from treatment to critical research will be available in every corner of the country.
