Budget reaction: Dinesh Chauhan, CEO, CORE Diagnostics
We hail the government’s continued commitment towards healthcare and well-being with the new Atma Nirbhar Swasthya Yojana, as an addition to the National Health Mission, with an outlay of Rs 64,180 crore. This will provide the necessary impetus to the development of primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare and further support the nation to come out of the distress caused by COVID-19. Since it will also be used towards creating modern institutions and labs to cater for detection and cure of new and emerging diseases – the diagnostics industry will have a major role to play and work towards making healthcare more accessible and sustainable. This is a great move towards making healthcare services more democratised and we are committed to bringing a significant change in the diagnostics space with early diagnosis and outcome-based line of treatment for patients.