PM Modi to launch multiple healthcare projects and distribute 51,000 appointment letters on Tuesday – ThePrint –

New Delhi, Oct 28 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch development projects worth around Rs 12,850 billion on Tuesday and also expand his government’s flagship health insurance scheme Ayushman Bharat to all senior citizens aged 70 years and above.

Modi chose to unveil the healthcare sector’s major breakthrough on the occasion of the ninth Ayurveda Day and the birth anniversary of Dhanvantari, who is considered the god of medicine.

In another statement, noting the Prime Minister’s continuous effort to provide quality healthcare services in the country, Modi also inaugurated India’s first All India Ayurveda Institute II. It was stated that it will open its phase in the national capital.

The Panchakarma hospital includes an ayurvedic pharmacy for medicine manufacturing, a sports medicine unit, a central library, an IT and start-up incubation center and a 500-seat auditorium, among others.

It will also inaugurate three medical colleges at Mandsaur, Neemuch and Seoni in Madhya Pradesh.

Additionally, the chief minister has established facilities and services at various AIIMS including Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh, Kalyani in West Bengal, Patna in Bihar, Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, Guwahati in Assam and New Delhi. will inaugurate its expansions. It includes Jan Aushadhi Kendra.

It will also lay the foundation stones of five nursing colleges at Shivpuri, Ratlam, Khandwa, Rajgarh and Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh, 21 critical care blocks in Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Manipur, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan under Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission (PM-). . ABHIM) and AIIMS in New Delhi and various facilities and service extensions in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh.

Among other projects, it will open an ESIC hospital in Indore in Madhya Pradesh and build bases of ESIC hospitals in Faridabad in Haryana, Bommasandra and Narasapur in Karnataka, Indore in Madhya Pradesh, Meerut in Uttar Pradesh and Atchutapuram in Andhra Pradesh. He will throw his stone. These projects will provide healthcare benefits to around 55 lakh ESI beneficiaries.

In an innovative use of drone technology to improve service delivery and make healthcare more accessible, Modi will launch drone services in 11 tertiary healthcare institutions.

These are AIIMS Rishikesh in Uttarakhand, AIIMS Bibinagar in Telangana, AIIMS Guwahati in Assam, AIIMS Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, AIIMS Jodhpur in Rajasthan, AIIMS Patna in Bihar, AIIMS Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh, AIIMS in Uttar Pradesh Raebareli, AIIMS Raipur in Chhattisgarh, AIIMS Mangalagiri in Andhra Pradesh and RIMS Imphal in Manipur.

It will launch a helicopter emergency medical service from AIIMS Rishikesh, which will help in providing medical care quickly.

The Prime Minister will also launch the U-WIN portal, which aims to benefit pregnant women and babies by completely digitizing the vaccination process.

Many other projects to be laid the foundation stones include a central research institute in yoga and naturopathy each at Khordha in Odisha and Raipur in Chhattisgarh, and NIPER Ahmedabad in Gujarat for medical devices and NIPER Hyderabad in Telangana for bulk drugs. There are four centers of excellence. NIPER Guwahati in Assam for phytopharmaceuticals and NIPER Mohali in Punjab for anti-bacterial anti-viral drug discovery and development.

In a major boost to the Make in India initiative in the healthcare sector, the prime minister will inaugurate five projects under the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for medical devices and bulk drugs at Vapi in Gujarat, Hyderabad in Telangana, Bengaluru in Karnataka. Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh and Nalagarh in Himachal Pradesh, the statement said.

These units will produce high-tech medical devices such as body implants and critical care equipment, as well as important bulk drugs. PTI KR NSD NSD

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