Free treatment to all under 30 by 2022

GORAKHPUR, Feb 11, 2019: By 2022, all people up to the age of 30 years will not only get free health check-ups but also free medical treatment, said Union health minister JP Nadda. He was in Gorakhpur to inaugurate the Guru Gorakhnath Nursing School and College on Sunday.

To attain that goal, he said the government was transforming primary and community health centres into health wellness centres and more than 20,000 such centres had been made so far. 

Criticising the previous governments on health issues, Nadda said, “Earlier, campaigns were run after a disease had already spread but under the Modi government, arrangements were made to control the spread of diseases before they struck. Enumerating the achievements of the Union government, the minister said, “In the past four years, 118 medical colleges have been set up and 18,635 medical seats added.”

Nadda also said that under the Prime Minister's National Dialysis Programme, 1.5 lakh people had taken the facility of free dialysis while under Ayushman scheme, more than 11 lakh people had been benefited in just four months. 

Nadda said that Gorakhpur was being turned into a medical hub with hi-tech facilities at BRD Medical College and AIIMS, which will start operations soon.