Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission for digitisation and expansion of healthcare in the nation. Under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, each and every citizen will get a digital wellness ID with their wellness records digitized and it would also connect the digital wellness options of hospitals across the nation.
The PM stated this digitising of the wellness infrastructure would transform the sector and make it accessible and very affordable particularly for the vulnerable section of the population, men and women living in villages and remote components of the nation. Modi pointed out that digital technologies had helped the nation deal with the pandemic.
He cited the Aroyga Setu app that helped include spread of the infections and the CoWin platform that has played a massive function in vaccinating citizens across the nation with close to 90 crore vaccines administered with verifiable certification.
He cited the development of telemedicine consultations for the duration of the pandemic with 1.25 crore remote consultations and the PM-Jan Aarogya Yojana had currently delivered free of charge remedy to two crore men and women. The PM stated the nation digital infrastructure was expanding with 130 crore Aadhar cards, 118 crore mobile phone subscribers, 80 crore world wide web customers and 43 crore Jan Dhan bank accounts and the UPI enabling digital payment method. “There is no such big connected infrastructure anywhere in the world. From ration to administration, digital infrastructure is reaching the common man in a fast and transparent way,” the PM stated.
The universal wellness interface platform created by the National Health Authority was run across six union territories for one year and is now getting rolled out pan-India. The wellness platform would assist citizens find out hospitals, diagnostic labs, pharmacies and physicians with each and every type of specialization. People will be in a position to book physical appointment, ambulances and home collection of samples, book and conduct tele consultations and make payments for medicines and health-related services.
Apart from the digital infrastructure, the country’s healthcare method has seen a development in the quantity of physicians, nurses and para health-related employees in the last seven to eight years and quickly there would be one health-related college for each and every 3 Loksabha seats, the PM stated. The Primary Health Care centres are getting transformed into wellness centres with a focus on preventive wellness care and 80,000 such centres had began operations, he stated.