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June 2018
Affordable healthcare (The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions)
Noting that access to medicines is a
"big concern" for the poor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said
his government is committed to decreasing the financial burden and ensuring
affordable healthcare for every Indian.
He stressed on the need to make health a mass
movement through public participation. The
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Interacting with beneficiaries of the Pradhan
Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojna (PMBJP) and affordable cardiac stents and
knee implants through video bridge, Modi said his government is working to
provide more beds, hospitals and doctors and has taken one step after another
to bring down treatment cost for the poor. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
"We have to make efforts to make public
health a mass movement through public participation," he said during his
fifth such interaction in the series with various beneficiaries of government
schemes.
The prime minister noted that illness not
only creates a huge financial burden on families, especially the poor and
middle class, but also affects the socio-economic sector. The Total Investment & Insurance
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"It is the endeavour of the government
to ensure affordable healthcare to every citizen," he said. The Total Investment & Insurance
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Observing that the PMBJP was launched with
the intention to make the poor, lower middle class and middle class get access
to affordable medicines and reduce their financial burden, Modi said more than
3,600 Jan Aushadhi Kendras have been opened all over the country, where over
700 generic medicines are available at affordable price. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
"The cost of medicines at Jan Aushadhi
Kendras is 50-90 per cent less than the market price. The number of Jan
Aushadhi Kendras will reach over 5,000 in the near future," he said. The Total Investment & Insurance
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On the government's ambitious Ayushman Bharat
programme, he said under it, around 10 crore families, that is around 50 crore
people, will be given health insurance cover of Rs 5 lakh. The Total Investment & Insurance
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"The first phase of this yojna has been
initiated and soon people across the country will get benefited by it," he
said.
As people living in small villages or towns
find it difficult to go to a hospital or health centre that is very far away,
the government has decided to open around 1.5 lakh health centres across the
country under Ayushman Bharat, Modi said.
Apart from medicines, diagnostics facilities
will also be available there, he said.
"In the last four years, our government
has taken one step after the other so that the cost incurred by the poor for
treatment can come down.
"I can say with satisfaction that we
have chosen the right direction, taken the right path, made the right policies
and they are now reaching the grass roots level...We have worked in mission
mode," he said.
Modi said access to medicines is a big
concern for the poor and the government's constant endeavour is to "ensure
affordable healthcare to every Indian". The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
Several people are benefiting from the PMBJP,
he said.
He also noted that the government has reduced
stent prices substantially, benefiting the poor and the middle class the most.
Earlier, people had to sell or mortgage
property to purchase stents, Modi said, adding that the cost of heart stents
has reduced from around Rs 2 lakh to Rs 29000. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
Although knee-related issues are common, the
prime minister said their treatment was not common earlier as those who had the
money could ensure treatment.
The government has reduced knee transplant
prices by 60-70 per cent, thereby bringing down the cost from Rs 2.5 lakh to
around Rs 70,00080,000, he said.
"It is estimated that around 1 to 1.5 lakh
knee operations happen in India every year. On that account, the reduction in
knee transplant prices has saved close to Rs 1,500 crore for public," he
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The prime minister noted that the cost of
dialysis too was high and it was available in selected cities and keeping that
in mind, the PM Rashtriya Dialysis Yojna was started through which the
government has performed more than 22 lakh dialysis sessions for 2.25 lakh
patients in more than 500 districts.
He said that more than 90 medical colleges
have been opened which has led to an increase of 15,000 MBBS seats. The Total Investment & Insurance
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"India would become great and healthy
only when its 125 crore citizens are healthy," the prime minister said
while stressing his government aims to eradicate tuberculosis from India by
2025, five years ahead of a globally set deadline. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
"The world has decided that by 2030, TB
will be eradicated. We in India decided why wait for 2030. That is why we have
made a programme to eradicate it five years ahead of the global deadline,"
he said.
Modi said that the government has also
started a huge campaign for immunisation and more than 3.15 crore children and
80 lakh pregnant women have been vaccinated in 528 districts through Mission
Indradhanush.
"Our target is that till 2020, all those
children are immunised who have not been immunised or have been partially
immunised, so that they can be saved from 12 different diseases," he said. The Total Investment & Insurance
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Ahead of the International Yoga Day on June
21, the prime minister appealed to people to practice yoga and make it a part of
their life. The Total Investment &
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