New Delhi: Health Minister of Health Mansukh Mandaviya on Thursday urged the pharmaceutical industry to consider the making of domestic drugs that will soon break patents under Atmanirbhar Bharat and also work to increase the share of generic drugs in this country.
He is handling a session about ‘ensuring affordable and accessible health for all’ at the annual meeting of CII 2021.
The minister urges the pharmaceutical industry to consider making domestic drugs that will soon die and say the PLI scheme announced by the government will help the domestic industry in this effort.
He said initiatives such as medical device parks, Pharma Park, pli would help the industry to grow in the coming days.
He also convinced the industry of all possible support to improve health infrastructure and seek cooperation and input to increase the ease of doing the business and competitiveness of this sector.
Government and industry partnerships to make health care accessible and affordable assume the importance of in countries such as India as a disease increase costs for the poor and inhibit progress, ministers who hold charges of the Ministry of Chemistry and Fertilizers.
“If any country must prosper, among many parameters, one of which is that citizens must be healthy and for that health facilities must be affordable and accessible,” he said.
The Minister praised the private sector to work together with the government to meet the lack of health facilities, oxygen, injections, drugs etc.
during a pandemic.
Many companies transmit their processes for production of critical care health requirements on a large scale, including masks, PPES, and ventilators, he said.
Talking about initiatives to provide affordable health care, the minister said the Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyajana (PMBJP) and noted how the number of Janaushadhhi Kendras has reached more than 8,000 in 2016 from 103, while the number of drugs is available in these shops too has been improved.
This is the direct end to end the chain without intermediaries, he said, adding the private sector to participate in this initiative by sending tenders.
Regarding the Ayushman Bharat insurance scheme, he said more than 2 crore families had benefited from it and private hospitals also participated in the mission.
The Minister said in the democratic system, when humans and the government worked together only then the country could prosper.
The best example of how the corporate sector and industry can work together and provide results seen during the Covid-19 crisis management, he added.
About the first locking imposed nationally after the announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he said it was applied when India did not have a PPE, ventilator, also drugs were not available in sufficient quality, and people were not trained and did not have experience.
In countries like India, regardless of great diversity and strata of different people, migration and other situations, locking is charged for one and a half months and everyone works collectively to make it successful, said Mandaviya.
The government does its share, the industry does whatever they can for their employees, NGOs do whatever they can, and people and families take care of each other in the community and the environment.
Whereas even in some developed countries, people were nervous about locking, Mandaviya showed.