Friday 08, 2021 | PNS |Dehradun
Dedicates 35 PSA oxygen plants across 35 states at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Rishikesh on Thursday
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the aim of his government is to open at least one medical college in every district of the country. He was speaking at the function organised to dedicate 35 Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) oxygen plants across 35 states at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Rishikesh on Thursday. These plants have been established under the PM CARES fund. He said that a few years ago there were very few AIIMS in the country but now efforts are being made to open one AIIMS in every state.
He said that it is a great blessing for him to visit the state on the occasion of the first day of Navratri festival. The PM said that he took oath as CM of Gujarat on this very date 20 years ago and noted that the beginning of this journey coincided with the formation of the Uttarakhand state.
He expressed happiness that from the land where life-giving forces like Yoga and Ayurveda gained strength, today, oxygen plants are being dedicated. Emphasising the achievements of his government during the pandemic period the PM said that a network of about 3,000 testing labs was created from just one testing lab, before the pandemic. He said that India has implemented the world’s largest and fastest vaccination campaign. The PM stressed that what India has done is a symbol of its determination, service and solidarity.
He said earlier the country used to produce 900 metric tonnes of liquid medical oxygen a day but as the demand increased, India increased the production of medical oxygen by more than ten times. The PM said that about 93 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been administered and soon the country will cross the 100 crore mark.
The PM said now the government does not wait for the citizens to come to it with their problems and then take any step and now the government is reaching out to the citizens. Modi said that before the launch of the Jal Jeevan Mission in 2019, only 1,30,000 households in the country had access to tap water but today piped drinking water has started reaching more than 7,10,000 houses of Uttarakhand.
The Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, the Governor of Uttarakhand Lt Gen (Retd) Gurmit Singh, the CM of Uttarakhand Pushkar Singh Dhami and Union Minister of state for Tourism and Defence Ajay Bhatt and others were present on the occasion.
