‘DELHI DECLARATION’ ON DIGITAL HEALTH

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• The Delhi Declaration on digital health for sustainable development calls for WHO’s leadership in digital health and for it to establish a specific mechanism to centrally coordinate digital health to assist its Member States. 
  
  
• The global intergovernmental meeting on digital health is being hosted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfarein collaboration with World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Digital Health Partnership (GDHP). 
  
  
• The declaration marks India’s commitment in maximizing the digital health investments to ensure Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and realize Ayushman Bharat. 
  
  
• This Delhi Declaration on digital health firmly aligns with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India.