PM Modi stresses on preventive healthcare

New delhi — Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged the people to be more conscious about preventive healthcare because prevention was not only beneficial for a person but also for his or her family and society.

Modi also said the government has set a target to free India from tuberculosis by 2025 and that the government and insurance companies will jointly provide Rs500,000 insurance cover to about 100 million families per year.

In his monthly radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’, the prime minister said: “Preventive healthcare is the least costly and the easiest one as well. As much as we are conscious about preventive healthcare, it will be beneficial for the person, his family and society.” Modi also stressed on the need for sanitisation because “a healthy India is as vital as clean India”.

“I believe that healthy India and clean India are supplementary to each other. The country has moved ahead in the health sector with a conventional approach.

“Earlier, every health related work was the responsibility of the Union Health Ministry only. But in the current scenario, every department, state governments and other departments are working together for a healthy India.”

He said the first necessity for a healthy life is cleanliness.

“As all of us took up the responsibility, the result is that in the last four years or so, sanitation coverage has almost doubled and risen to around 80 per cent.” Modi said yoga has attained worldwide recognition as a measure of preventive healthcare and urged people to start a movement right now. —

I believe that healthy India and clean India are supplementary to each other. The country has moved ahead in the health sector with a conventional approach. Narendra Modi, prime minister