An amount of Rs. 56.91 crore will be invested for development of healthcare services in Tripura as part of Pan India Rs. 64000-crore Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday. Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb said this while reacting to the launching of Pan-India Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission.
The Chief Minister accompanied by Chief Secretary Kumar Alok, Principal Secretary (Health) J.K. Sinha and Tripura Mission Director of National Health Mission, Siddhartha Shiv Jaiswal joined the event of launching the Mission from the civil secretariat in virtual mode. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Mission from Varanasi.
Later speaking to the media, Deb hailed the healthcare infrastructure programme and said that the health sector of the country had seen robust change under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi since 2014.
He also said that Rs. 93 crore was sanctioned for Tripura under External Covid Response Plan (ECRP) and the state had already received Rs. 83 crore.
On behalf of the people of Tripura, the Chief Minister congratulated the Prime Minister for launching the major health infrastructure programme.
Meanwhile, after launching the Pan-India Health Mission, the Prime Ministe said that the middle-class groups and the poor were worst sufferers in the absence of adequate facilities at the grassroots level.
“This mission will solve these problems. We are focusing on hill states like Uttarakhand and Himanchal Pradesh and also the northeast. We will address the gaps,” he said.
He also said research centres will also be upgraded and four new National Institute of Virology units would be set up so that the country can be ready to deal with new viral issues and the pandemic.