Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Tuesday launched Free Annual Preventive Health Check-up Program (FAPHC) for all the 30-plus citizens of the state the programme is aimed at making people health conscious so as to initiate treatment for any disease detected by these diagnostic tests at the early stage.
Addressing the gathering at local Community Health Centre (CHC) after the launch of the scheme, Badal said that majority of the people, especially Punjabis by nature, were least health conscious and this scheme would be instrumental in changing their mind-set to stay healthy through regular check-up and medical tests.
“Under this scheme, normally each and every citizen resident of State, above the age of 30 years, would be screened for diseases like anemia, hypertension, diabetes, kidney and liver diseases etc.
These tests would be conducted in all CHCs across the state on every Saturday and would also be motivated to take healthy food and exercise regularly,” he added.
Badal revealed that an expert group led by Advisor Health and former PGIMER Chandigarh director Dr KK Talwar and PGIMER’s School of Public Health head Dr Rajesh Kumar planned this initiative.
On the occasion, the Chief Minister also handed over the diagnostic tests and investigation reports to few patients as token of the launch of this scheme.