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Nov 16, 2015

Health Ministry inaugurates country’s first AMRIT outlet at AIIMS in New Delhi

11/16/2015
Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has opened country’s first Affordable Medicines and Reliable Implants for Treatment (AMRIT) outlet at AIIMS in New Delhi to sell drugs at highly discounted rates.
The retail outlet was inaugurated by Union Health Minister J P Nadda at AIIMS campus in New Delhi under the AMRIT programme which aims drugs to sell drugs at highly discounted rates.

Points to note
  • The pilot AMRIT outlet will provide drugs for cancer and cardiovascular diseases at highly discounted rates.
  • At this outlet the prices of 202 cancer and 186 cardio-vascular drugs will reduced on an average by 60 to 90 per cent.
  • The pilot AMRIT outlets will be managed by the government-owned HLL Lifecare Ltd , which will sell both drugs and implants at significant discount on market rates.
  • These drugs and implants will be sold based upon authentic prescriptions from doctors to AIIMS patients and also patients availing treatment at other hospitals.
Later, HLL Lifecare Ltd will establish and run the AMRIT chain of pharmacies across the country with an aim to reduce the cost of treatment for the patients.

Oct 5, 2015

Union Government launches 2nd phase of Mission Indradhanush

10/05/2015
Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has launched the second phase of Mission Indradhanush to achieve full immunisation of children below two years.
In the second phase, the week-long programme will be implemented in 352 districts of the country.
Mission Indradhanush depicts 7 colours of the rainbow which aims to cover all those children by 2020 who are either unvaccinated or are partially vaccinated against 7 vaccine preventable diseases. These 7 diseases are Diphtheria, Whooping cough, Tetanus, Polio, Tuberculosis, Measles and Hepatitis B.
WHO (World Health Organisation), UNICEF, Rotary International and others are donor partners for Mission Indradhanush.
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