New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission under which every Indian will now get a digital health ID. the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission will develop the health sector of India and will help the millions of people in the country.
The government on the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission said that “The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission will play a key role in the digital health ecosystem, like that of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) in revolutionizing payments – has underlined that citizens will now only be a click away from accessing healthcare facilities.”
During the launching of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission – Prime Minister Modi said that “Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission will now help connect digital health solutions across the country. All Indians will now get a digital health ID under this scheme. Every citizen’s health record will now be digitally secure, and digitization will make healthcare easier.”
PM Modi further added that the newly launched mission will play a big role in eliminating problems in the medical treatment of the poor and middle class.
The government said that “The Health ID of every citizen will also work as their health account, to which personal health records can be linked and viewed with the help of a mobile application. The access and exchange of longitudinal health records of citizens will be enabled with their consent.”
“Today begins a Mission that has the power to bring a revolutionary change in India’s health facilities. Three years ago, on Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya’s birth anniversary, Ayushman Bharat Yojana was implemented. I am happy that Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission is being started nationwide from today on its third anniversary,” the Prime Minister added.
PM Modi praise the UPI system also, he said that “India is now working on a healthcare model that will work not just on curing diseases but preventing them too. 130 crore Aadhar IDs, 118 crore mobile subscribers, about 80 crore internet users, and 43 crore Jan Dhan Bank accounts – such a huge, connected infrastructure can’t be found anywhere else in the world. This digital infrastructure – from ration to governance – is transparently reaching every Indian.”
(_Vinayak.Barot)