PM Modi to launch Pradhan Mantri Atmanirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the Pradhan Mantri Atmanirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana PMASBY on Monday for strengthening healthcare infrastructure across the country.

The prime minister will visit Siddharthnagar to inaugurate nine medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh. He will also inaugurate various development projects worth more than Rs 5,200 crore for his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi, a release from the Prime Minister's Office PMO said.

PMASBY aims to fill critical gaps in public health infrastructure, especially in critical care facilities and primary care, in both urban and rural areas, and will operate in addition to the National Health Mission.

It will provide support for 17,788 high-focus health and wellness centres in 10 rural states. Besides, 11,024 urban health and wellness centers will be established in all states.

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Critical care services will be available in all the districts of the country with more than 5 lakh population, through exclusive critical care hospital blocks, while remaining districts will be covered through referral services, the release said.

Under PMASBY, a National Institution for One Health, four new National Institutes for Virology, a regional research platform for WHO South East Asia region, nine biosafety level III laboratories, five new Regional National Centre for Disease Control will be set up, it added.

The scheme aims to build an IT-enabled disease surveillance system by developing a network of surveillance laboratories at block, district, regional and national levels in metropolitan areas. It also aims to operationalise 17 existing public health units and strengthen 33 new public health units at points of entry for effectively detecting, investigating, preventing, and combating public health emergencies and disease outbreaks.

People will have access to a full range of diagnostic services in the public healthcare system through a network of laboratories across the country. Integrated public health labs will be set up in all the districts, the government said.

Meanwhile, the nine medical colleges to be inaugurated by the Prime Minister are located in Siddharthnagar, Etah, Hardoi, Pratapgarh, Fatehpur, Deoria, Ghazipur, Mirzapur and Jaunpur.

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