India
India will be polio free next year
By Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India
Oct 8, 2005, 05:46

The Government is expected to announce soon that India is free of leprosy. Also that the country will be polio free by next year. This information was given here today by the Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Ambumani Ramadoss, when a 14 member British Health delegation held discussions with him, on how India is tackling the health problems, despite being a country of more than a billion population. The meeting with Dr. Ramadoss was arranged by Mr. Martin Fischer of King�s Fund Organisation of Britain.

Dr. Ramadoss gave a brief account of the Government�s initiatives in tackling health related problems of the masses including the recently launched National Rural Health Mission as well as the proposed Health Insurance Scheme. He told the delegation that health insurance is yet to catch up in this country and when the Medical Tourism Programme takes to wings, health insurance would have taken a concrete shape. Speaking about medical tourism, the Minister said that quality health services would be provided to tourists coming to India, which being the cheapest destination for the solution of health related problems. He told them that the Government is now focussing more on non-communicable diseases, than communicable diseases.

The British side expressed keen interest in cooperating with India in the health sector and wanted to learn from India�s experience in the field. They appreciated the Indian Government for the initiatives to render health care to the massive population. Dr. Ramadoss wanted India to be associated with Britain in stem cell research and the British side welcomed the idea.

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