Blitz Bureau
PRIME Minister Narendra Modi on October 29 inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of multiple projects related to the health sector worth around Rs1,20,850 crore in New Delhi on the occasion of Dhanvantari Jayanti and 9th Ayurveda Day.
Prime Minister also launched an expansion of health coverage to all senior citizens aged 70 years and above as a major addition to Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana. This will help provide health coverage to all senior citizens regardless of their income.
The PM said that elderlies in Delhi and Bengal won’t be able to benefit from the scheme as their governments are not implementing it for political reasons. “I apologise to all the elderly people above 70 years of age in Delhi and all the elderly people above 70 years of age in West Bengal that I will not be able to serve you,” PM Modi said, according to ANI.
PM Modi also inaugurated Phase II of India’s First All India Institute of Ayurveda. It includes a Panchakarma hospital, an Ayurvedic pharmacy for drug manufacturing, a sports medicine unit, a central library, an IT and start-ups incubation centre and a 500-seat auditorium among others.
He also inaugurated three medical colleges at Mandsaur, Neemuch and Seoni in Madhya Pradesh. Further, the Prime Minister also inaugurated facility and service extensions at various AIIMS in Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh, Kalyani in West Bengal, Patna in Bihar, Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, Guwahati in Assam and in New Delhi, which will also include a Jan Aushadhi Kendra.
The foundation stones of five nursing colleges in Shivpuri, Ratlam, Khandwa, Rajgarh and Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh were also laid by the Prime Minister.
