PM Modi highlights prominent positive changes in India's healthcare sector

India has witnessed significant positive changes in the healthcare sector said Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He highlighted that due to free treatment of up to 5 lakh annually to the poor under the Ayushman Bharat scheme and an increase in the number of new medical colleges, the sector has seen growth.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has written a reply to the beneficiaries of a free camp for cataract operations in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi. In the reply, he highlighted the big positive changes the healthcare sector has witnessed in recent times. He cited many achievements of his government.

PM Modi said that the sector is witnessing many big and positive changes due to the initiatives like free treatment of up to INR 5 lakh annually to the poor under the Ayushman Bharat scheme and an increase in the number of new medical colleges.

"The healthcare sector of the country is witnessing big and positive changes through many steps such as free treatment of up to five lakh rupees annually to the poor under the Ayushman Bharat scheme, construction of modern health centres at the district level, increase in the number of new medical colleges including AIIMS, across the country and medicines at affordable rates through Jan Aushadhi Kendras," the prime minister said.

As per officials, in the past few days, under the 'Swastha Drishti, Samridh Kashi' campaign, hundreds of people in Varanasi have successfully undergone free eye surgery. They had each sent a letter to PM Modi to thank him for the initiative.

Responding to the letters, Modi wrote, "What can be greater happiness and satisfaction than this that we have been able to bring some positive changes in your life with our efforts," as reported by Economic Times.

"There was a time when poor and middle-class families could not get proper treatment and perhaps they accepted this as their destiny. We have seen how mothers and sisters sometimes used to hide their diseases just because they were afraid that the cost of their treatment would worsen the family's economic condition," added Modi in his letter. 

He also expressed satisfaction that due to continuous efforts many major reforms have been made in the health sector in the last eight to nine years.

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