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The Finance Minister has launched a new scheme titled “PM Atma Nirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana”. In general, The scheme aims to develop capacities in the health care system over 6 yrs.
PM Atma Nirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana:
- Type: It is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme
- Aim: The scheme aims to
- Improve primary, secondary, and tertiary care health systems,
- Strengthen existing national institutions in Health sector
- Create new institutions, to cater to detection and cure of new and emerging diseases.
- Duration of the Scheme: Six Years
- Features of the Scheme: The scheme will support in the setting up of
- Rural, Urban Health and Wellness Centres
- Integrated Public Health Labs
- Critical health care hospital blocks
- National institution for One Health
- Regional research platform for WHO South-East Asia Region,
- 9 Biosafety Level III laboratories and 4 regional centres of National Institutes for Virology.
- Strengthening National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and 5 regional branches of it
- Expanding the integrated health information panel.
Source: The Hindu
