Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today inaugurate nine medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh during a visit to the poll-bound state. He will also launch PMASBY.
Prime Minister will reach Gorakhpur Airport at 9.30 am and then leave for Siddharthnagar with CM Yogi. At around 10.30 am, he will inaugurate nine medical colleges in Siddarthnagar and address the public gathering.
Nine medical colleges to be inaugurated are in the districts of Siddharthnagar, Etah, Hardoi, Pratapgarh, Fatehpur, Deoria, Ghazipur, Mirzapur and Jaunpur.
He will also inaugurate various development projects worth more than Rs 5,200 crore for his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi, the PMO said in a statement.
Later, he will leave for Varanasi at 12.25 pm. According to the Prime Minister’s Office statement, PM will arrive in Varanasi at around 1.25 pm and will launch Pradhan Mantri Atmanirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana (PMASBY) along with various development projects worth more than Rs 5200 crore.
People will have access to a full range of diagnostic services in the public healthcare system through a network of laboratories across the country, and integrated public health labs will be set up in all the districts.
Nine biosafety level-III laboratories, five new regional national centre for disease control will be set up, the PMO said.
The scheme aims to increase the availability of health professionals, correct the existing geographical imbalance in the distribution of medical colleges and effectively utilize the existing infrastructure of district hospitals.
Under three phases of the scheme, 157 new medical colleges have been approved across the nation, out of which 63 medical colleges are already functional, the PMO said.
Pradhan Mantri Atmanirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana(PMASBY):
According to the PMO statement, PMASBY is one of the largest pan-India schemes aimed to strengthen healthcare infrastructure especially in terms of critical care facilities and primary care in both urban and rural areas.
Its objective is to fill gaps in public health infrastructure, especially in critical care facilities and primary care in both urban and rural areas.
This project will be in addition to the National Health Mission to fill the gaps in public health infrastructure. PMASBY will offer aid for 17,788 rural health and wellness centers in 10 High Focus States.
In addition, all the states will have 11,024 urban health and wellness centers established.
Under PMASBY, a national institution for one health, four new national institutes for virology, a regional research platform for WHO South East Asia Region.
Critical care services will be available in all the districts of the country with more than five lakh populations through exclusive critical care hospital blocks, while the remaining districts will be covered through referral services.
The scheme aims to increase the availability of health professionals, correct the existing geographical imbalance in the distribution of medical colleges and effectively utilize the existing infrastructure of district hospitals.