NEW DELHI, Mar 12: India’s success in full immunisation through Mission Indradhanush and resolve to launch new vaccines to protect the children and India’s population from various diseases has been lauded.
Ms Melinda Gates, co-chair and trustee, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, who called on Union Health Minister J P Nadda and discussed various issues relating to the health sector in India, appreciated the initiatives taken towards strengthening the health systems, particularly in the primary health care.
Mr Nadda said the Government was committed to providing universal health coverage to all citizens through newly declared scheme on health insurance.
The Government, he said, understands the significance of improving the delivery of public health provisions including vaccination, family planning and maternal health outcomes, in promoting all-round growth and development of women and children, who are the bedrock of a healthy nation, an official statement here said. He appreciated the efforts of Gates Foundation in complimenting the efforts of the Government in the health sector, which has enhanced the capacity of the health workers for more effective implementation of the projects.
The Minister elaborated on Mission Indradhanush that aimed at covering all missed-out and left-out children with cover of full immunisation and the successes within the nation-wide initiative.
Rotavirus, he said, will soon be introduced in select states in the first phase. Commending the government’ s health initiatives, Ms Gates said the advances made in the area of immunisation, family planning, kala azar, health systems strengthening were indeed appreciable. The measures taken to increase the basket of choices for contraceptives were a progressive move, she said. (UNI)
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