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Medical Schools in India Enhance from 387 to 731 Since 2014, Says Well being Minister JP Nadda
Medical Schools in India Enhance from 387 to 731 Since 2014, Says Well being Minister JP Nadda
NEW DELHI: Highlighting the numerous enhancements in India’s well being infrastructure underneath the NDA authorities, Union Well being Minister JP Nadda addressed the Lok Sabha. He reported a considerable improve within the variety of medical schools throughout the nation, which has grown from 387 in 2014 to a formidable 731 in 2024. This enlargement displays the federal government’s dedication to enhancing medical training and healthcare accessibility nationwide.
He stated this through the dialogue on calls for for grants underneath the Ministry of Well being and Household Welfare for 2024-25.
“There have been 387 medical schools within the nation. The quantity now stands at 731,” Nadda stated.
As well as, undergraduate medical seats have additionally “elevated from 51,348 to 1.12 lakh, marking a 118 per cent rise, whereas postgraduate seats have grown by 133 per cent,” the Minister stated.
Nadda additionally described individuals’s well being because the precedence of the Narendra Modi authorities and claimed that underneath the management of PM Modi, the world’s largest well being scheme is being run in India. He added that “the allocation of the well being price range has additionally elevated by 164 per cent.”
“The well being price range within the 12 months 2013-14 was Rs 33,278 crore, at this time that price range has been elevated to Rs 90,958 crore,” Nadda stated.
He additional famous that “earlier than the primary NDA authorities (Atal Bihari Vajpayee authorities), there was only one AIIMS within the nation, through the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led authorities, six AIIMS had been opened.
“Within the final 10 years of the Modi authorities, 22 AIIMS have been accepted”. Of those 18 are operational and 4 are underneath development, the Well being Minister knowledgeable the Parliament.
The Union Minister stated that underneath the Ayushman Bharat Scheme, “about 12 crore households, that’s greater than 55 crore individuals, have been supplied free therapy amenities as much as Rs 5 lakh. And 1.73 lakh Ayushman Arogya Mandirs have been established”.
Nadda stated that the scheme, which gives free medicines and different health-related amenities together with testing’ has additionally “diminished out-of-pocket expenditure from 62 per cent to 47.1 per cent” within the nation.
He stated this through the dialogue on calls for for grants underneath the Ministry of Well being and Household Welfare for 2024-25.
“There have been 387 medical schools within the nation. The quantity now stands at 731,” Nadda stated.
As well as, undergraduate medical seats have additionally “elevated from 51,348 to 1.12 lakh, marking a 118 per cent rise, whereas postgraduate seats have grown by 133 per cent,” the Minister stated.
Nadda additionally described individuals’s well being because the precedence of the Narendra Modi authorities and claimed that underneath the management of PM Modi, the world’s largest well being scheme is being run in India. He added that “the allocation of the well being price range has additionally elevated by 164 per cent.”
“The well being price range within the 12 months 2013-14 was Rs 33,278 crore, at this time that price range has been elevated to Rs 90,958 crore,” Nadda stated.
He additional famous that “earlier than the primary NDA authorities (Atal Bihari Vajpayee authorities), there was only one AIIMS within the nation, through the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led authorities, six AIIMS had been opened.
“Within the final 10 years of the Modi authorities, 22 AIIMS have been accepted”. Of those 18 are operational and 4 are underneath development, the Well being Minister knowledgeable the Parliament.
The Union Minister stated that underneath the Ayushman Bharat Scheme, “about 12 crore households, that’s greater than 55 crore individuals, have been supplied free therapy amenities as much as Rs 5 lakh. And 1.73 lakh Ayushman Arogya Mandirs have been established”.
Nadda stated that the scheme, which gives free medicines and different health-related amenities together with testing’ has additionally “diminished out-of-pocket expenditure from 62 per cent to 47.1 per cent” within the nation.
