Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India is also achieving the historic milestone of 150 crore – 1.5 billion vaccine doses, in the first week of the first month of the year itself. 150 crore doses in less than one year is a significant achievement and symbol of the will power of the country.
Inaugurating the second campus of Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute in Kolkata today via video conference, he said that it denotes the country’s new confidence, Aatmnirbharta and pride, he said. As cases are rising due to the omicron variant, this shield of 150 crore vaccine doses becomes all the more important, he added.
He noted that today, more than 90 percent of India’s adult population has received a single dose of the vaccine. Within just 5 days, more than 1.5 crore children have also been given the dose of the vaccine. He dedicated this achievement to the whole country and every government. He especially thanked the scientists of the country, the vaccine manufacturers and the people in the health sector for this achievement.
The Prime Minister said so far, about 11 crore doses of corona vaccine have been provided free of cost to West Bengal by the government. More than one and a half thousand ventilators, more than 9 thousand new oxygen cylinders have also been provided to Bengal. 49 PSA new oxygen plants have also started functioning in the state, the Prime Minister informed.
The Prime Minister said that in order to transform the health sector of the country, mission mode campaigns for Preventive Healthcare, Affordable Healthcare, Supply Side intervention are being accelerated. Yoga, Ayurveda, Fit India Movement, Universal Immunisation are strengthening the Preventive Healthcare.
Similarly, Swachh Bharat Mission and Har Ghar Jal schemes are contributing to better health outcomes. He said that the new campus will go a long way in providing affordable and state of the art care to the people of West Bengal especially to the poor and middle class families. “In the journey of the pledge to make best medical care available to each and every citizen of the country, we have taken another strong step”, he added.
Chief Minister of West Bengal Ms Mamata Banerjee and Union Ministers Dr Mansukh Mandaviya, Dr Subhas Sarkar, Shantanu Thakur, John Barla and Nisith Pramanik were among those present on the occasion.
