(THE GIST OF PIB) Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana

[November-2022]

Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana

• Union Health Minister said, Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana significantly reduced patients’ out-of-pocket expenditure.

About:

• The scheme ensures easy reach of affordable quality medicines to the people in every nook and corner of the country.
• More than 8700 Jan Aushadhi stores have been opened across the country, covering almost every district. 
• The government has set a target to increase the number of Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Kendras to ten thousand five hundred by the end of March 2025.

Objective:

• To make available quality medicines, consumables and surgical items at affordable prices for all and reduce out of pocket expenditure of consumers/patients.
• To popularize generic medicines among the masses and eliminate the notion that low priced generic medicines are of inferior quality or are less effective.
• Generate employment by engaging individual entrepreneurs in the opening of JanaushadhiKendras.

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