Govt may consider expanding Jan Aushadhi pathology centres to block level

Private diagnostic players' business has been hit due to lockdown; open to PPP

As India plans to get pandemic-ready with its health infrastructure, the old plan of having pathology laboratories attached to Jan Aushadhi outlets (that dispense affordable and generic medicines) is likely to be revived.
 

The finance minister on Sunday said expenditure on health care infrastructure was to rise. She said the plan was to have district- and block-level public pathology labs.
 

A senior government official said one of the ideas being considered is to come up with government pathology labs attached to Jan Aushadhi centres.

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