<span style="color: #222222;">Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan has said that the paradigm of health has shifted from health to wellness to well-being in the last eight years. Mr Bhushan said this while chairing a panel discussion on the theme 'Indian Pharma vision 2047 during the day two of the 7th International conference on Pharma and medical device sector in New Delhi. He stressed on the need &nbsp;to ensure focused research on equity and access to drugs and diagnostics in the years to come.<br />''<br />''Highlighting the importance of the four pillars of Ayushman Bharat program, the Health Secretary said that the government is planning to operationalize around 1.5 lakh Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness centers in the country by the end of this year out of which 1.17 lakh such centres have already been operationalised. Under Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY, 10 crore families are provided with health security and cashless treatment of 5 lakh rupees yearly. &nbsp;<br />''<br />''Mr Bhushan also added that the Government is working relentlessly to provide digital health service delivery through Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission. He said the government is planning to spend 65 thousand crore rupees in the next 5 years till 2025-26 to create health infrastructure at district levels.<br />''<br />''Speaking on the occasion, Secretary, Department of Pharmaceuticals, S Aparna highlighted that India has the triple advantage of cost, quality and scale in the pharma sector and this needs to be ramped up. She further added that India has built up a reputation for being able to deliver good quality generic medicines at high production scale and at affordable prices.</span><br />
News On AIR | April 26, 2022 8:00 PM
Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan says the paradigm of health shifted from health to wellness to well-being in last 8 years