PM Atmanirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojna to be launched tomorrow in Varanasi

New Delhi, October24

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a day-long visit to Uttar Pradesh tomorrow. He will launch the ambitious Pradhan Mantri Atmanirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojna (PMASBY) nationwide at a function organised in Varanasi.

With the total outlay of Rs 64,180 Crore the centrally sponsored scheme PMASBY aims to fill the gaps in health infrastructure, surveillance and health research in urban and rural areas in the country till 2025-26.

In view of the global pandemic of Covid-19, the main purpose of the scheme is to make communities self-reliant in managing pandemics and health crises.

Under this scheme Critical care services will be available in all the districts of the country with more than five lakh populations, through Exclusive Critical Care Hospital Blocks, while the remaining districts will be covered through referral services.

The PMASBY scheme targets to build an IT enabled disease surveillance system by developing a network of surveillance laboratories at block, district, regional and national levels in Metropolitan areas. Integrated Health Information Portal will be expanded to all States and Union Territories (UTs) to connect all public health labs.

The Prime Minister will also inaugurate and lay the foundation of various development projects and works worth over Rs 5200 crore in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi.

Mr Modi will inaugurate Nine (09) newly built medical colleges in the state at a function in Siddharth Nagar. These medical colleges have been completed in Siddharthnagar, Etah, Hardoi, Pratapgarh, Fatehpur, Deoria, Ghazipur, Mirzapur and Jaunpur districts. Out of total nine, eight  medical colleges have been completed under Centre’s scheme and one has been made functional by the state government with its own resources.

The Prime Minister will also address public meetings at Siddharth Nagar and Varanasi.