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New Delhi, Aug 9 India is well on the path to have one doctor per thousand population by 2024, which is the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended doctor to population ratio, Member, NITI Aayog Dr Vinod Paul highlighted at a discourse series.During the same time, there would be an increase in the number of beds from 11 lakh to 22 lakh, Paul said."In the last 75 years, India has made significant progress in the health sector. At the time of Independence, the average life expectancy was just 28 years, and it has now reached close to 70 years. However, we are still far away from meeting the aspirations of people in terms of access to health services, and this remains a challenge," Paul observed.India has taken a number of steps to address these problems in the last six-seven years, and the results are encouraging, Paul pointed out at the online Department of Science & Technology (DST) Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav Discourse Series New India @ 75.It was organised by the National Council for Science & Technology Communication and Vigyan Prasar, a release said."Ayushman Bharat Yojna and Jan Arogya Yojna are the programmes that focus on providing all kinds of health facilities to people and are steps towards universal health coverage, affordability and accessibility to health facilities. Under Jan Arogya Yojna, 50 crore people are eligible now for affordable health services.Prof Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary, DST, highlighted the contribution of DST in the development and progress of the country in the last 50 years and its efforts to make India a science, technology and innovation power in the world."DST is a nursery to help, nurture and grow young talents for the progress and development of the country. DST has the capability to create future talents, and in the last five years, we have launched a whole lot of schemes and have taken various steps to identify loopholes and rectify them to ensure that science, technology and innovation play the key role in progress and development of the country," Sharma said.Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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