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Towards Duty
Towards Duty
Path
Path
Years
Years

Health Care

Healthy India,

Strong India

uccess and riches are built on
a foundation of good health.
SThen, whether that progress
is focused on an individual, a family,
a society, or the entire country, it is
built on the basis of health. This is Serious diseases like cancer weaken us
why the health sector has been a top emotionally and financially as a family and
as a society. So in the last 7-8 years massive
priority for the government for the and comprehensive work is being done in the
past eight years. In the middle of an country regarding health. Our government has
epidemic like Covid, a new initiative focused on seven subjects or we can say on the
to build health-related infrastructure Saptarishis of health.
above the block level has begun. -Narendra Modi, Prime Minister (during the
inauguration of 7 cancer hospitals in Assam)

Progress
Commencement October 2016 Until March 31, 2022, over 8700
Prime Minister's Bharatiya Jan Aushadhi Project
Scheme Generic drugs are 50 percent to Except for lab reagents, the scheme 10,500
Janaushadhi Kendras have been
established across the country.
90 percent cheaper here
centres by 2025,
Objective:To lower the amount of
money citizens spend on medicine. covers nearly 1600 pharmaceuticals now a Rs 5 lakh
incentive for centre
and 250 surgical goods, including
supplying affordable generic all drugs on the National Essential owners under the
pharmaceutical and surgical Medicines List. Approximately 1.25 scheme.
supplies (up to 50%–90% lower crore people buy medicines every
than market price) as well as job month. Sanitary pads are being sold
opportunities. for Rs 1 per pad under the scheme.

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