PM AYUSHMAN BHARAT HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE MISSION

Oct. 28, 2021

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the PM Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission.

About:

  • It will seek to address three critical gaps in India’s public health sector: augmenting health facilities for treatment; setting up of Integrated Public Health labs for diagnosis of disease, and expansion of existing research institutions that study pandemics.

  • It is the largest pan-India scheme since 2005 for the creation and improvement of long-term public healthcare infrastructure. It is meant to be implemented in each district of the country.

  • The government will spend Rs 64,180 crore on the scheme from the financial year 2021-22 to 2025-26.

  • The first component is to establish comprehensive surveillance of infectious diseases.

  • The second component is the creation of comprehensive diagnostics and treatment facilities.

  • The third component of the mission will be on comprehensive pandemic research.