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PM Atmanirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana

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In News

  • PM Launched Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission, also called PM Atmanirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana.

About the Scheme

  • Aim: To strengthen India’s critical healthcare network in both urban and rural areas.
    • Establish an IT-enabled disease surveillance system through a network of laboratories at block, district, regional and national levels.
    • Labs will be connected through the Integrated Health Information Portal.
  • Features:
    • To provide support to 17,788 rural Health and Wellness Centres in 10 ‘high focus’ states and establish 11,024 urban Health and Wellness Centres.
      • It is in addition to the National Health Mission.
    • Exclusive Critical Care Hospital Blocks with over five lakh population.
    • Institutional setup related to one health, four new national institutes for virology, a regional research platform for WHO (World Health Organization) & other labs will be set up.  

The state of Healthcare in India (Need)

  • COVID-19 crisis has highlighted glaring gaps in India’s healthcare sector.
  • Availability of basic infrastructure: India has 1.4 beds per 1000 people, 1 doctor per 1445 people, inadequate other staff.
  • Less Spending: Oxfam India 2020, India at 155th, allocating less than 4% of their budget on health (4th lowest in the world).
  • Insufficient Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (ISDP): Due to manpower & resource shortage.
  • Denial of health care: High out of the pocket expenditure & non-uniformity in Health care (regarding Rural Vs Urban)

Significance

  • Increased investments in research on infection disease
  • Institutional Infrastructure would be created
  • More skilled & trained staff (including healthcare professionals)
  • Testing network for the diagnosis of diseases will be boosted
  • Cater both rural & urban areas uniformly.
  • Further, enhance the spending on healthcare & supplement other schemes.

Other Related Initiatives

  • Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM)
  • PM Ayushman Yojana
  • Jan Aushadhi Yojana
  • Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana

Way Ahead

  • Proper implementation & monitoring (along with other schemes)
  • Use of technology
  • Increase spending on healthcare as mentioned in National Health Policy (NHP), 2017.

Source: IE

 
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