Vardhan for sharing of ideas to achieve public health goals

The health ministry endeavours to foster cross-learning amongst state governments, NGOs, healthcare organisations and other stakeholders so that they work in concordance to achieve the overarching public health goals, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday.

Vardhan was speaking at the inauguration the sixth national summit on 'good, replicable practices and innovations, along with Union Minister of State for Health Ashwini Kumar Choubey.

"This NHM National Summit is a celebration of ideas, innovations and knowledge sharing and we all must take back these and ensure that we implement at least a few of them," Vardhan said.

Calling the summit the aggregating ground of new ideas, thoughts and expression, the health minister said, "The ministry of health endeavours to foster cross-learning amongst the state governments, NGOs, healthcare organisations and other academic institutions so that these work in concordance to achieve the overarching public health goals."