Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was impressed with PM Modi’s’Ayushman Bharat healthcare scheme’ and went on to congratulate the government for the achievements made by the effective scheme in its first 100 days.
“Congratulations to the Indian government on the first 100 days of @AyushmanNHA. It’s great to see how many people have been reached by the program so far,” Gates tweeted, tagging the prime minister’s office.
In reply, Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked Bill Gates, saying that the government’s commitment is to provide superior quality and affordable healthcare to the poor. “stems out of our commitment to provide top quality and affordable healthcare to the poor,” PM Modi tweeted.
Recently, the government said that 6,85,000 beneficiaries have availed ‘free healthcare’ in the first 100 days of the scheme. PM Modi said the first 100 days have been quite sensational. “Large number of people benefited and lot more will in the coming days”.
PM Modi, in September last year, rolled out the scheme. The insurance scheme intends to provide an annual health cover of Rs 5 lakh per family for secondary and tertiary care hospitalisation. The programme will benefit about 100 million economically poor households and has been described by the government as the world’s largest healthcare scheme.
