{"id":10371,"date":"2019-09-24T17:47:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T12:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=10371"},"modified":"2019-09-24T17:47:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T12:17:44","slug":"healthy-life-a-basic-right-prime-minister-modi-tells-un-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/healthy-life-a-basic-right-prime-minister-modi-tells-un-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthy life a basic right, Prime Minister Modi tells UN meet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>At the 74th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly,Indian Prime minister has addressed the Universal Health coverage meeting.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key takeaways:<\/strong>The Prime Minister has said that a healthy life is the basic right of every person.He also outlined the four main pillars of healthcare that India focuses on:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Preventive Healthcare:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Prime minister said that India has laid special emphasis on yoga, ayurveda and fitness which has helped in controlling lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, blood pressure and depression.<\/li><li>India has also launched Fit India Movement recently.<\/li><li>The Clean India Campaign has contributed towards saving millions of lives.<\/li><li>Under immunization,India has not only introduced new vaccines but has also improved access to vaccination in far flung areas.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Affordable Healthcare:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>For this the government has rolled out the world\u2019s largest health insurance scheme named Ayushman Bharat.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Under this scheme,500 million poor people have been given the facility of free treatment worth up to Rs.5 lakh every year.In 2018, 4.5 million people availed of this facility.<\/li><li>India has opened more than 5000 special pharmacies where more than 800 varieties of vital medicines are available at affordable prices.<\/li><li>The cost of stents for heart patients has been slashed by 80% and the cost of knee implants has been cut down by 50 &#8211; 70%.<\/li><li>India has also helped in providing access to affordable healthcare by way of telemedicine to several other countries, especially African countries.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Supply Side Intervention<\/strong>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>India&#8217;s focus has been on establishment of modern institutions for quality medical education.<\/li><li>Government has has also increased the seats in medical colleges for improvement in health resources.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mission Mode Intervention<\/strong>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In order to improve the health of women and children, a National Nutrition Campaign and other new programmes have been launched in mission mode.<\/li><li>Also,India has commitment to eliminate Tuberculosis by 2025, five years ahead of the global goal of 2030.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:At the 74th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly,Indian Prime minister has addressed the Universal Health coverage meeting. Facts: Key takeaways:The Prime Minister has said that a healthy life is the basic right of every person.He also outlined the four main pillars of healthcare that India focuses on: Preventive Healthcare:&nbsp; Prime minister said&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/healthy-life-a-basic-right-prime-minister-modi-tells-un-meet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Healthy life a basic right, Prime Minister Modi tells UN meet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4694,4695],"class_list":["post-10371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-summit","tag-un-general-assembly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704700036},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}