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COVER STORY | Health
Covid challenge
workers, Anganwadi workers, and This is How the
helpers in this scheme, recognizing
their important role. By providing Nation Fought
security to these workers, this
scheme is strengthening primary
health services in India. Another In the year 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic not only presented
major success of India’s healthcare a challenge but also gave the skill to prepare for future difficulties.
sector is the inclusion of Delhi in When this pandemic was spreading in India, along with the
the Ayushman Bharat scheme. whole world, the country started a radical change in its health
Earlier, the people of Delhi were infrastructure. India not only fought this challenge but also emerged
not getting the benefits of this as a global leader by running the world’s largest vaccination
scheme due to political reasons campaign with an indigenous vaccine...
and had to depend on expensive
private treatment. But under the Biggest achievement
leadership of Prime Minister Modi, Historic progress in
the central government extended infrastructure
this scheme to Delhi, which has 220.67+
now ensured free and good-qual- Crore vaccine doses were Testing Lab
ity treatment to the economically successfully administered in
weaker people. India. 14 3,400
More than 2.50 crore doses March, 2020 Now
SCHEMES OF SOCIAL were administered in a single day
CONCERN HAVE CHANGED on 17 September 2021 on the ICU Beds
THE FACE occasion of PM Modi's birthday.
Healthy thought is a prerequisite Record of highest dose in a day. 2,168 1.45 Lakh
for a healthy mind. An unhealthy Under the Vaccine Maitri March, 2020 November, 2023
society or an uneducated society programme, India provided 30
can be the biggest impediment crore doses to other countries Oxygen Beds
to the journey of Viksit Bharat. of the world with the mantra of
‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ (The
In 21st-century India, the ability World is One Family), and One 50,583 5.5 Lakh
to fulfil dreams starts from the Earth-One Health. March, 2020 November, 2023
individual and family, but if the
population is not educated, not PPE Kit Manufacturing | March, 2020 0 Capacity now 4.5 lakh per day
healthy, then neither is that house
happy, nor is that country happy. More than 1,500 PSA oxygen plants installed. These plants were set
Therefore, the central government up with the help of PM CARES as well as various ministries and
has brought about revolutionary PSUs.
changes by implementing various More than 36,840 tonnes of liquid medical oxygen were transported
schemes of social concern related to severely affected states through 900 oxygen trains.
to health. Today, everyone should 4,176 railway coaches converted into fully functional
have their own concrete house, isolation and quarantine facilities.
for which there is a housing Air Force airlifted cryogenic
scheme. Also, Electricity in every oxygen tankers and essential
house, free cooking gas has been medical equipment.
made a reality in every kitchen
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