TIL Desk/National/Mumbai/ Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed on reducing dependence on other countries for getting medical equipment so as to make treatment affordable for people. “Seventy per cent of medical equipment used are imported from foreign nations. This situation has to change because it makes the treatment very costly,” he said after launching a book to mark Tata Memorial Centre’s 75 years of social service.
He was addressing the event held in Mumbai through video conferencing from New Delhi. The aim of the National Health Policy is to ensure affordable health care, he said. “We have come out with a National Health Policy. With this, our aim is to ensure affordable health care for all,” the prime minister said.
He said the government was aiming at providing the best medical care to all sections of the people and, as part of it, new AIIMS and medical colleges would be set up across the country. “We are coming up with new AIIMS and medical colleges across the country. We want every citizen to have access to best medical treatment,” PM Modi said.
