The health ministry on Wednesday launched an ambitious initiative of screening and putting 75 million people with hypertension and diabetes on ‘standard care’ by 2025 to mark the World Hypertension Day.
It was announced at the G20 co-branded event “Accelerating the Prevention and Management of tension and Diabetes” organised by the ministry and the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Highlighting the innovative scheme, Dr V K Paul, NITI Aayog Member (Health) stated that it will be the largest expansion of NCDs (non-communicable diseases) in primary healthcare programme in the world with a community based approach starting at the primary healthcare level.
This indicates clear resolve of the government to address NCDs by allocating resources, capacity enhancement, mobilisation and multi-sectoral collaboration, he said.
In addition to the 75/25 initiative, the ‘Shashakt Portal’ was launched for training 40,000 primary healthcare medical officers on standard treatment work flow for NCDs initiate
