In order to make healthcare accessible, affordable, transparent and easy for the poor, the Government has taken several initiatives such as “National Health Policy” and “Ayushman Bharat” and these initiatives would fulfil the dream of a Healthy India by 2022, said Ashwini Choubey, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare said while releasing Knowledge Papers on Healthcare issues at the 5th Annual event of Healthcare Federation of India.
“The focus of the Government is to transform primary healthcare to help underserved section and 1.5 lakh Primary Health Centres would be transformed into well equipped Wellness Centres. Within a very short span of time, we have transformed 4,500 such centres into Wellness Centres and efforts are on to transform all soon,” said the Minister.
On the occasion, Choubey released two Knowledge Papers-”Financing and Funding Indian Healthcare: Navigating The Turbulent Tide,” prepared by NATHEAlTH & PwC and a NATHEAlTH-Bain & Co-Knowledge Paper on “Impact of Operational Excellence in Healthcare.”