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Home Minister: Government taking steps to boost medical tourism
 
New Delhi 13 April 2018
The Union Home Minister said that given the huge income disparity in India, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi introduced the Ayushman Bharat scheme to provide the best healthcare for the poor and needy.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh said that Government is promoting the emergence of India as a medical destination to the world. Addressing the 127th Founder's Day Celebrations of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital the Union Ministry of Home Affairs has taken several steps towards boosting medical tourism such as extending e-Visa to 161 countries.

Besides, the MHA has extended the duration of stay on e-Visa from 30 to 60 days and also allowed triple entry in e-Medical Visa cases.

Speaking about the Health Sector the Union Home Minister said in a country of 125 crore people, providing Healthcare to All is a huge challenge. We have a very skewed doctor-patient ratio. If we see Health Sector spending, it constitutes just 1.16 percent of the GDP. But we are determined to increase it significantly, at least to 2.5 percent.

Rajnath Singh said given the huge income disparity in India, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi introduced the Ayushman Bharat scheme to provide the best healthcare for the poor and needy.

He said Ayushman Bharat is the National Health Protection Scheme, which will cover over 10 crore poor and vulnerable families (approximately 50 crore beneficiaries), providing medical insurance cover up to Rupees 5 lakh per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization.

The Union Home Minister said providing universal healthcare will not be possible without the participation of the private sector. “You will agree that whereas people should get the affordable healthcare they should also get universal health cover.

To ensure Care and Cover both, we need huge investment in the health sector. This can happen only with active contribution of the private sector,” said Shri Rajnath Singh. “We see private sector in the health sector as our strategic partner,” he added.
 
 
 
 
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