Highlights

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the National Centre for Ageing at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
• The Prime Minister inaugurated a 1-km motorable tunnel connecting the AIIMS main building to its trauma facility to transfer patients and their relatives, doctors, instruments and medicine.
• He said the government’s vision was not limited to providing modern hospitals and medicines and hence it introduced a national health policy to ensure low-cost treatment for every citizen and to eradicate the causes of diseases.
• He talked about the National Health Protection Scheme which aims to provide a cover of ₹5 lakh a family a year to 10 crore vulnerable families.

Source: The Hindu

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