PATNA: Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a paradigm shift has taken place in health services in the country and a new approach of holistic health has been adopted, Union Health MinisterJP Nadda has said.
From 2017 onwards, focus has changed to preventive, promotional, rehabilitative and geriatric health from earlier curative approach, he said while addressing a function in Patna after the inaugurating and laying of foundation stone of health-related projects worth over Rs 850 crore.
The Union Health Minister said institutional delivery has leap frogged in the country and now it has surpassed 93 per cent.
Nadda added that due to improvement of health services one of the biggest cohorts has developed and every year 2 crore children and around 1.5 crore mothers are getting benefits. He said the health department is providing better mother and child care with six- time antenatal tests and threetime inoculation to pregnant mothers.
The minister said Ayushman Bharat scheme was launched on this principle which is providing free medical treatment benefits upto Rs 5 lakh annually to 44 per cent population of the country. The biggest beneficiaries of the scheme are poor and marginalised, he added. Earlier Nadda along with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar inaugurated the high- tech super- speciality eye hospital Regional Institute of Ophthalmology (RIO) at IGIMS Patna. The biggest eye hospital of Eastern India RIO, Patna, has been established with a cost of Rs 188 crore.
Nadda during his visit to Biharalso inaugurated a super- specialty hospitals in Bhagalpur, Darbhanga and Muzaffarpur.
