VP calls for making healthcare affordable and accessible to all
Inaugurates Yoda Life Line Diagnostics in Hyderabad
The Vice President, M Venkaiah Naidu emphasised the need to ensure affordable and accessible healthcare for all and suggested the modern multi-speciality hospitals also start satellite centres in rural areas.
Inaugurating Yoda Life Line Diagnostics in Hyderabad, the Vice President praised the Central government’s decision to set up at least one medical college in each district. In this regard, he further suggested the governments envision one medical college in each revenue sub-division.
Expressing his happiness over the setting up of this state-of-the-art diagnostic centre in Hyderabad, Naidu called for leveraging advances in technology to also provide such facilities for the people in rural areas. He appreciated the governments’ efforts in making healthcare accessible to all and further called for redoubling the efforts in providing infrastructure support for medical centres across the country.
Appreciating the efforts of Sudhakar Kancharla in bringing a fully equipped state-of-the-art diagnostic laboratory capable of in-depth disease characterisation, the Vice President lauded YODA for using the latest prediction technologies for the benefit of people. Noting that Hyderabad has become an international hub of medical tourism, he said that such facilities would help in providing quality treatment to the patients.
Talasani Srinivas Yadav, Minister of State for Animal Husbandry, Fisheries and Cinematography, Government of Telangana, Mohammad Azharuddin, Former Member of Lok Sabha & former Cricketer, Chiranjeevi, Film Actor & Ex-Minister of Tourism, Telangana, Pullela Gopichand, Chief National Coach for the India Badminton Team, Harika Dronavalli, Indian Chess Grandmaster, Sudhakar Kancharla, Managing Director, Yoda Lifeline Diagnostics and others were present on the occasion.
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