Centre plans to establish network of modern hospitals: Naqvi

In a bid to boost healthcare facilities in the country, the Centre plans to set up a network of modern hospitals in different places, Union Minister of State for Parliamentary and Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said here today.
He said the Centre has given its approval for setting up of three new All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Nagpur in Maharashtra, Manglagiri in Andhra Pradesh and Kalyani in West Bengal under Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojna.
"Besides this, the Centre has also been planning to establish a network of modern hospitals at other places in the country," he said during the foundation stone laying ceremony of Kerala's first Molecular Human Genetics Laboratory and Centre for Advanced Biotechnology- Clinical Application at Noorul Islam Institute of Medical Science here.

Stating that NDA government was giving priority to health sector, Naqvi said the Centre has initiated a revolutionary campaign for the health of the nation and its citizens.
Programmes such as "National Health Mission", Make in India, Kisan Bima Yojana, Mudra Bank, Jan Dhan Yojana and Pradhanmantri Jivan Jyoti Bima Yojana will prove to be effective medicines for people's economic and social health, he said.
"Healthy and Prosperous India" is the priority of the Centre and our Government has been working with a commitment to provide good and low-cost health services in the remote areas of the country. Private sector has an important role to play in this regard, Naqvi said.

Compulsory rural areas service for MBBS doctors was an effective step, he said.

According to Census 2011, 53 per cent of the country's
population is reproductive age group (15- 49 years) while one of five persons in the country is an adolescent (10-19 years) and every third is a young person (15-24 years).
"There is a collective responsibility on the government, civil society and other stakeholders to work together to plan adequate and suitable opportunities to meet their needs and aspirations and address the health and well-being of this population," she said.
PFI said that at the London Summit 2012, India committed to provide family planning services to an additional 48 million new users by 2020.

To fulfill our FP-2020 commitments and meet the responsibility towards the large young population, investments in health and family planning need to be proportionately increased.
"According to the FP-2020 progress report 2015-16, India has only reached 7.7 million additional users, by July 2016. Three million additional users have been reached last year, in contrast to 1.5 million additional users reached, each for the first three years.
"The accelerated efforts of the government towards universal access to family planning are also evident in its introduction of three new spacing methods of contraception in the family planning programme... In 2015, offering greater choice and autonomy to the users of family planning," she said.