Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu announced that 13,944 medical camps will be organized across the state from September 17 to October 2 as part of the ‘Swasth Nari Sashakt Parivar Abhiyan’ program to conduct medical check-ups for all women across the country.
Stating that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has paid special attention to the upliftment of the poor and the health of women, he said that if women are healthy, the entire family will be healthy, and only then the society and the country will be good.
CM Chandrababu participated in the inauguration program of the ‘Swasth Nari Sashakt Parivar Abhiyan’ at the AU Convention Center in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday along with Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Both of them watched the speech given by Prime Minister Modi in Madhya Pradesh when he launched the scheme online.
“The central and state governments are giving top priority to public health. Every woman should take advantage of these medical tests to be held from September 17 to October 2. We are organizing 13,944 medical camps across the state. We will issue cards for maternal and child health care, conduct tests and vaccinations for pregnant women, create awareness on anemia and nutrition”, Chandrababu said.
The Chief Minister added that they will conduct free tests to diagnose blood pressure, diabetes, oral, breast and cervical cancers. Superspecialty doctors will serve in these camps. He said that with the integrated health policy being implemented by the central and state governments, as well as the Bill Gates Foundation and TCS, innovative changes are being made in the medical sector, cost reduction and measures are being taken to prevent diseases.
Chandrababu said that health records are being digitized under the name of Project Sanjeevani, and the governments are working with the aim of reducing medical costs and taking precautions to prevent diseases. He expressed hope that soon we will reach a point where a pregnant woman will not have to go to the hospital every time, but will be able to review her condition directly from the hospital with the help of technology and suggest that she come at the right time.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that Prime Minister Modi has been a womanizer from the beginning. “He has been following it since he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat. In Gujarat, he sent ministers to villages and made the opening day of schools a festival to promote girls’ education”, she said.
