Union Health Minister Shri JP Nadda held a high-level review with Haryana’s Health Minister and senior officials to assess healthcare delivery and reinforce national health programme implementation. The meeting focused on strengthening the public health system, ensuring patient-centric care, improving regulatory supervision, and advancing tuberculosis elimination.
Shri Nadda emphasized robust drug regulation, continuous monitoring of the pharmaceutical supply chain, and institutionalizing best practices to enhance patient satisfaction, oversight, and compliance. He highlighted the Free Drugs and Free Diagnostics schemes, stressing efficient supply chains and effective monitoring.
He underscored the critical role of diagnostics in timely healthcare, calling for professional hospital management, regulatory compliance, stronger oversight of blood banks and hospital systems, and mechanisms to maintain uninterrupted laboratory reagent and consumable supplies. He directed collaboration with HLL Lifecare Ltd to set up AMRIT Retail Pharmacy Stores in every district hospital offering up to 50 percent discounts on branded drugs.
Highlighting technology-driven healthcare, he noted telemedicine can bridge access gaps, especially in remote areas, and commended Haryana’s adoption of these services. He reaffirmed the government’s commitment to eliminating tuberculosis through targeted district-level interventions covering screening, diagnostics, treatment adherence, and nutritional support. AI-enabled handheld X-ray units have been deployed for community-level TB screening, and NAAT machines are available at the block level for early detection, including drug-resistant TB. Over 350 MY Bharat volunteers in Haryana have joined the Ni-kshay Mitra initiative to support TB patients and raise community awareness.
Shri Nadda called for sensitization workshops for MLAs to promote engagement with Zilla Parishads and Chief Medical Officers and strengthen review mechanisms. He emphasized that public participation is key to improving healthcare outcomes, accountability, and trust. Haryana’s Health Minister assured full cooperation and continued collaboration with the Union Health Ministry to enhance health outcomes statewide.
He reiterated the Centre’s support to Haryana through National Health Mission interventions, public-private partnerships, medical education expansion, viability gap funding, and infrastructure support to deliver modern, affordable healthcare. He noted that similar consultative engagements with other states will continue as part of a mission-mode approach to health sector reforms. The meeting concluded with a commitment to strengthen drug regulation, advance diagnostics, professionalize hospital administration, expand medical education capacity, and accelerate TB elimination, reflecting cooperative federalism in public health.
Attendees included Haryana Health Minister Arti Singh Rao, Additional Chief Secretary Sudhir Rajpal, Commissioner Manoj Kumar, State Drugs Controller Lalit Goyal, Director of Health Services Virender Yadav, and other senior state officials, along with Union Health Ministry officials including Health Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava, Additional Secretary Vinod Kotwal, NHM Managing Director Aradhana Patnaik, CEO of FSSAI Rajit Punhani, and Drugs Controller General Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi.
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