Lok Sabha Question No. 2768 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-03-12
Subject: PM Atma Nirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: Raja Amareshwara Naik, Jaskaur Meena, Kaushalendra Kumar, Nihal Chand Chauhan, Kripanath Mallah, Rajiv Ranjan (Lalan) Singh, Shobha Karandlaje, Sarmistha Sethi, V. Kalanidhi, Jayanta Kumar Roy, Bhola Singh, Sukanta Majumdar, Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo, Nisith Pramanik, Rajveer (Raju Bhaiya) Singh, Vinod Kumar Sonkar

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2768 TO BE ANSWERED ON 12 TH March , 2021

## PM ATMA NIRBHAR SWAS TH BHARAT YOJANA

## 2768. SHRI RAJA AMARESHWARA NAIK:

SHRIMATI JASKAUR MEENA:

SHRI KAUSHALENDRA KUMAR:

SHRI NIHAL CHAND:

SHRI KRIPANATH MALLAH:

SHRI RAJIV RANJAN SINGH ALIAS LALAN SINGH:

KUMARI SHOBHA KARANDLAJE:

SHRIMATI SARMISTHA SETHI:

DR. KALANIDHI VEERASWAMY:

DR. JAYANTA KUMAR ROY:

SHRI BHOLA SINGH:

DR. SUKANTA MAJUMDAR:

SHRIMATI SANGEETA KUMARI SINGH DEO:

SHRI NISITH PRAMANIK:

SHRI RAJVEER SINGH (RAJU BAAIYA):

SHRI VINOD KUMAR SONKAR:

Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:

- (a) the time frame and the manner in which the Government has proposed to implement the new centrally sponsored scheme 'PM Atma Nirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana';
- (b) the salient features and objectives of the said Yojana;
- (c) the targets set to implement the main interventions proposed under the said Yojana along with budget earmarked for the same;
- (d)  the  manner  in  which  the  implementation  of  the said  scheme  will  boost  health infrastructure in the country along with the number of States and districts likely to be covered under it initially ;
- (e)  the  necessary  st eps  proposed  to  develop capacities  of  primary,  secondary  and  tertiary health care systems and to strengthen the existing national institutions; and
- (f) the steps being taken by the Government to spend the 2.5 per cent of GDP on health?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

(SHRI ASHWINI KUMAR CHOUBEY)

(a)to ( e) : In the Budget speech of FY 21 -Prime Minister Atmanirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana' (PMASBY) scheme has been announced on 1 st February, 2021 , with an outlay of about Rs.64,180 Cr over six years (till FY 25 - 26) .This will be in addition to the

22, ' National Health Mission.

The main interventions under the scheme to be achieved by FY 25 - 26 are:

- i. Support for 17,788 rural He th and Wellness Centres in in 10 High Focus States
- iii. Setting up of Integrated  Public  Health  Labs  in  all  districts  and  3382  Block  Publ Health Units in 11 High Focusstates;
- ii. Establishing 11,024 urban Health and Wellness Centres in all the States.
- iv. Establishing Critical Care Hospital Blocks in 602 districts and 12 Central Institutions;
- vi. Expansion of the Integrated Health Information Portal to all States/UTs t o connect all public health labs;
- v. Strengthening  of  the  National  Centre  for  Disease  Control  (NCDC),  its  5  regio branches and 20 metropolitan health surveillance units;
- vii. Operationalisation of 17 new Public Health Units and strengthening of 33 exis Public Health Units at Points of Entry, that is at 32 Airports, 11 Seaports and crossings;
- ix. Setting up of a national institution for One Health, a Regional Research Platfo WHO  South  East  Asia  Region,  9  Bio - Safety  Level  III  laboratories  and  4  regional National Institutes for Virology.
- viii. Setting up of 15 Health Emergency Operatio n Centres and 2 mobile hospitals; and

The measures unde r the scheme focus on developing capacities of health systems and institutions across the continuum of care at all levels viz. primary, secondary and te on preparing health systems in responding effectively to the current and f pandemics/dis asters.  The  PMASBY  targets  to  build  an  IT  enabled  disease  surveillanc system by developing a network of surveillance laboratories at block, district, regi national levels, in Metropolitan areas & strengthening health units at the Points of for effectively  detecting,  investigating,  preventing  and  combating  Public  Health  Emerge and  Disease  Outbreaks.  Increased  investments  are  also  targeted  to  support  researc COVID - 19 and other infectious diseases, including biomedical research to gene rate evidence to inform short - term and medium - term response to COVID - 19 like pandemics and to develop core capacity to deliver the One Health Approach to prevent, detect, and respond to inf disease outbreaks in animals and humans.

(f): National Health Policy (NHP), 2017 envisages raising public health expenditure fro the existing 1.15% to 2.5% of GDP by 2025 in a time bound manner.