Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday visited Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi, which has been inaugurated as “India’s biggest scheme to augment the health infrastructure infrastructure”. The objective of this Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission is to ensure a robust public health infrastructure in urban and rural areas, capable of responding to public health emergencies or disease outbreaks.<\/p>\n
In order to increase access to health services to all people, this Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission, in addition to the National Health Mission, will support 17,788 rural health and wellness centres in 10 ‘high focus’ states and across the country. To set up 11,024 urban health and wellness centres.<\/p>\n
According to a press release issued by the Prime Minister’s Office, the mission aims to “fill critical gaps in the public health infrastructure, especially in critical care facilities and primary care in urban and rural areas.”<\/p>\n
According to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), it will ensure access of the general public to critical care services in all districts of the country with a population of more than five lakhs through ‘Exclusive Critical Care Hospital Blocks’ and then, referral services to all other remaining districts. will be covered through Integrated public health laboratories will also be set up in all districts, giving people access to “a full range of diagnostic services”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday visited Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi, which has been inaugurated as “India’s biggest scheme to augment the health infrastructure infrastructure”. The objective of this Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission is to ensure a robust public health infrastructure in urban and rural areas, capable of responding to public health emergencies or disease outbreaks. In order to increase access to health services to all people, this Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission, in addition to the National Health Mission, will support 17,788 rural health and wellness centres in 10 ‘high focus’ states and across the country. To set up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[3127,365,1757],"class_list":["post-16560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-ayushman-bharat-health-infrastructure-mission","tag-india","tag-modi-govt"],"yoast_head":"\n