Times Now Summit 2022: Rural healthcare under focus in Andhra Pradesh: State Health Minister Vidadala Rajini

Minister of Health, Family Welfare and Medical Education of Andhra Pradesh, Vidadala Rajini spoke at length about the initiatives undertaken by the administration of her state in the rural healthcare area at the Times Now Summit in New Delhi. She also spoke about medical colleges, doorstep treatment, enhancement of the systems, and more.

Anurakti Sharma

Updated Nov 25, 2022, 17:28 IST

Minister of Health, Family Welfare and Medical Education of Andhra Pradesh, Vidadala Rajini speaking at Times Now Summit.

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New Delhi: "Our honourable chief minister is driving us towards initiating and strengthening healthcare in rural areas," said Minister of Health, Family Welfare and Medical Education of Andhra Pradesh, Vidadala Rajini while speaking at the Times Now Summit 2022 in New Delhi.

"Any robust healthcare system must provide for affordability, accessibility, and availability. This module actually helps the rural areas, our honourable CM feels that rural areas should have the same facility as the urban areas. We have 10000+ clinics in rural areas and 1,100 plus PHCs (public healthcare centres) in rural areas," Minister Rajini said.

"In addition, there is a very good initiative called the family physician concept to treat patients at the doorstep. In this concept the doctor will go to the doorstep, under every PHC there is a population of up to 50,000 population, one will stay at the PHC and another will travel to a village and gives treatment to the villagers," Rajini said.

"He will also be responsible for the hygiene of the village," she added.

She also spoke at length about establishing new government medical colleges in Andhra Pradesh, including two of them being in tribal areas of the state.

The Minister also said that her state is looking to undertake comprehensive cancer care for the residents, "In my state, we are offering comprehensive cancer care and the whole continuum of care is taken from prevention to treatment, palliative, and rehab."

She added, "we will make sure that by 2030 no patient will go out of Andhra Pradesh for treatment and our state-of-the-art facility will attract other states to get treatment in Andhra Pradesh."

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