Government focusing on developing holistic healthcare system: Amit Shah on World Liver Day
Published on Apr 19, 2025
By PTI
In the image posted by @gupta_rekha via X on Saturday,
April 19, 2025, Union Home Minister Amit Shah addresses the 'Healthy Liver -
Healthy India' programme organised on the occasion of World Liver Day by the
Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) in New Delhi. Delhi CM Rekha
Gupta is also seen. (@gupta_rekha via PTI Photo)
- NEW DELHI — The central government is focusing on developing a holistic
healthcare system, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Saturday and advised
youths to focus on proper food intake, exercise and sleep so that they remain
fit and contribute to the country's development.
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- Addressing an event on World Liver Day, Shah said a
healthy liver is the gateway to a healthy body.
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- Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he
said, the central government has worked to create a holistic healthcare system
in the country and has launched many programmes and schemes in this direction.
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- Shah said that the health budget of the government which
was Rs 37,000 crore in 2014 has now grown to Rs 1.27 lakh crore.
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- He said people in the country should have proper intake
of food and water, adequate hours of sleep and regular exercise, while the Modi
government will take rest of the responsibility of taking care of their health
through various programmes.
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- "On the occasion of 'World Liver Day', everyone
should take a pledge to keep their liver healthy with complete awareness and
diligence," he said at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS).
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- Shah cited his experience of adopting a healthy lifestyle
in the form of proper food, water, sleep and exercise since May 2019 and added
that it has freed him from medicines and enhanced his capacity to work, think
and make decisions.
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- The minister inaugurated an Integrated Liver
Rehabilitation Centre at ILBS and also visited a cartoon exhibition organised
around the theme of liver health at the institute.
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- "I enjoy cartoons, including those based on
me," Shah said in a lighter vein and lauded ILBS director Dr S Sareen for
the various initiatives by the institute in creating awareness on liver health.
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- The home minister urged corporate houses to publicise the
importance of liver health and support the institutes working in the field of
liver treatment and research.
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- He said the Modi government's schemes such as Ujjwala
Yojna, Khelo India, Fit India and other initiatives on drinking water and
toilets were directly associated with public health.
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- Shah said that the Modi government has spent Rs 65, 000
crore on health infrastructure in the country and has made arrangements to make
every Primary Health Center (PHC) and Community Health Center (CHC) a complete
unit.
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- He said that for the availability of affordable generic
medicines, a network of more than 15,000 Jan Aushadhi Centres has been created
in the country and under Mission Indradhanush, arrangements have been made for
free vaccination of children from birth to the age of 15 years.
