The Union Minister of State for health and family welfare Ashwini Kumar Chaubey said that the Union Government would convert 1.5 lakh Government Health Centres into wellness Centres. Addressing the media persons during the Investors Summit, he said that the Ayushman Bharat Yojana, the universal health insurance scheme, would provide free health facility to 6 crore poor families in the country.
He, further, said that 15000 Arogya Mitras have been recruited by the Government to help patients covered under the mega health policy. The Union Minister added that the Union Government would set up 350 wellness centres in Uttarakhand.
Speaking on the occasion, the State forest and Ayush Minister Harak Singh Rawat said that 26 memorandum of understanding (MoU) worth Rs 3000 crore has been signed during the Investors Summit in the AYUSH sector alone. He said that the State Government has removed all land conversion-related hassles to facilitate establishment of industry in Uttarakhand and allowed purchase of agricultural land for setting up industry. He announced that to provide trained manpower to the AYUSH industry, new graduate and post-graduate courses would be started in Uttarakhand Ayurveda University. Rawat said that he had had talks with the Union Minister of State Chaubey for including Ayurveda, Yunani, Homeopathy and other Indian systems of medicinal practices in Ayushman Bharat Yojana.