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Ayushman Bharat aims to provide quality healthcare and ensuring cancer-free lives: Narendra Modi tweets on World Cancer Day

| @indiablooms | Feb 04, 2019, at 04:08 pm

New Delhi, Feb 4 (IBNS): Observing World Cancer Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday highlighted his government's initiatives like Ayushman Bharat which aims at providing quality healthcare and ensuring cancer-free lives of people.

"Today, on #WorldCancerDay we reiterate our commitment towards ensuring early detection and affordable treatment of cancer. Initiatives like Ayushman Bharat have a strong emphasis on providing quality healthcare and ensuring cancer-free lives," he tweeted.

Ayushman Bharat Yojana or Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) or National Health Protection Scheme or Modi Care is a centrally sponsored scheme launched in 2018, under the Ayushman Bharat Mission of MoHFW in India.

The scheme aims at making interventions in primary, secondary and tertiary care systems, covering both preventive and promotive health, to address healthcare holistically.

Meanwhile, World Cancer Day is an international day marked on Feb 4 to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection, and treatment.

World Cancer Day was founded by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to support the goals of the World Cancer Declaration, written in 2008.

The primary goal of World Cancer Day is to significantly reduce illness and death caused by cancer

 

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