25 Oct 2021 Pradhan Mantri Atma Nirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit Uttar Pradesh on October 25, 2021 and launch Pradhan Mantri Atma Nirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana in Varanasi.
Key Points
- Earlier on the same day, he inaugurated nine medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh.
- PM is also set to inaugurate several development projects worth more than Rs 5200 crore for Varanasi.
About Prime Minister Atma Nirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana (PMASBY)
- PMASBY is going to be one of the largest pan-India schemes to strengthen healthcare infrastructure across India.
- This scheme is being launched in addition to the National Health Mission.
- It is a central sector scheme, that targets for building an IT enabled disease surveillance system by means of developing a network of surveillance laboratories at national, regional, district and block levels.
Objective of PMASBY
- PMASBY will be launched with the objective of filling critical gaps in public health infrastructure, with special focus on critical care facilities & primary care across the urban and rural areas.
Facilities under PMASBY
- The scheme will be providing support to 17,788 rural Health and Wellness Centres across 10 High Focus States.
- Under it, around 11,024 urban Health & Wellness Centres will be established across all the States.
- Critical care services will be made available through Exclusive Critical Care hospitals, in all the districts of India having more than 5 lakh population. Remaining districts will be covered by means of referral services.
- People will get access to full range of diagnostic services in Public Healthcare system using a network of laboratories in India.
- Integrated Public Health Labs will be set up under the scheme, in all the districts.
Institutions to be set up under PMASBY
- A National Institution for One Health
- 4 New National Institutes for Virology
- 9 Biosafety Level III laboratories
- Regional Research Platform for WHO South-East Asia Region and
- 5 New Regional National Centre for Disease Control.
yojna ias daily current affairs 25 Oct 2021
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