The Union minister of state for health and family welfare, Prataprao Jadhav stated that the government has taken steps to strengthen primary healthcare services in the country.
The ministry of health and family welfare provides technical and financial support to the states/UTs to strengthen the public healthcare services and to promote disease prevention, based on the proposals received in the form of Programme Implementation Plans (PIPs) under National Health Mission (NHM).
Various initiatives carried out under NHM by the Government of India in the country are operationalization of Ayushman Arogya Mandirs (AAMs), Free Drugs Service Initiative, Free Diagnostic Service Initiative, National Ambulance Services, Mobile Medical Units, ASHAs, 24 x 7 Services and First Referral Facilities, Prime Minister’s National Dialysis Programme, various activities under Reproductive & Child Health, Anaemia Mukt Bharat (AMB) strategy, TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan and Universal Immunization programme.
National Programme for Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases (NP-NCD) focuses on strengthening infrastructure, human resource development, early diagnosis, referral to an appropriate level of healthcare facility for treatment and management and health promotion and awareness generation for prevention of NCDs including cervical cancer. Under NP-NCD, 770 District NCD Clinics, 524 Day Care Cancer Centres, 233 Cardiac Care Units and 6410 Community Health Centre NCD Clinics have been set up.
Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) aims to create an online platform enabling interoperability of health data within the health ecosystem to create a longitudinal electronic health record of every citizen, make healthcare accessible for citizens.
