PM- ABHIM

PM- ABHIM

Subject : Schemes

Section: Health

Concept:

• World Bank has approved $1 billion loans for Pradhan Mantri Ayushman Bharat Infrastructure Mission (PM ­ABHIM).
• The loan agreements have been signed to augment PM­ABHIM which was launched on October 25, 2021, with an outlay of about ₹64,180 crore (till FY 2025­-26) to strengthen healthcare infrastructure across the country.

PM-Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission

• The scheme aims at strengthening healthcare infrastructure across the country.
• Its objective is to fill gaps in public health infrastructure, especially in critical care facilities and primary care in both urban and rural areas.
• Through this, critical care services will be available in all the districts of the country with more than five lakh population through exclusive critical care hospital blocks, while the remaining districts will be covered through referral services.
• It will provide support to 17,788 rural Health and Wellness Centres in 10 ‘high focus’ states and establish 11,024 urban Health and Wellness Centres across the country.
• People will have access to a full range of diagnostic services in the public healthcare system through a network of laboratories across the country.
• Integrated public health labs will also be set up in all districts, giving people access to “a full range of diagnostic services” through a network of laboratories across the country.
• All the public health labs will be connected through the Integrated Health Information Portal, which will be expanded to all states and UTs.
• An IT-enabled disease surveillance system will be established through a network of surveillance laboratories at block, district, regional and national levels.

Institutions to be set-up under the scheme:

• Under the scheme, a national institution for one health, four new national institutes for virology, a regional research platform for WHO (World Health Organization) South East Asia Region, nine biosafety level-III laboratories, and five new regional national centres for disease control will be set up.
• Biosafety Level 3: The pathogens that can cause serious health hazards are worked under biosafety level 3.