- NEW DELHI — To make health accessible, it must
be made affordable, and that begins by treating it as a service, not a
business, Union Labour and Employment Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya said on
Sunday.
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- Mandaviya
said that for the world, health may be commerce, but for India, it is service,
and service is our 'sanskaar'.
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- He recalled
the efforts during the Covid-19 pandemic, saying that India's healthcare
workers embodied this spirit by prioritising service above everything else.
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- “During Covid,
our healthcare workers embodied this spirit. When service, not profit, drives
healthcare, it reaches the last mile," Mandaviya said at the World Health
Summit (WHS) Regional Meeting 2025 here.
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- Mandaviya,
who is also the Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, stressed that treating
health as a service is key to ensuring it reaches every citizen.
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- The World
Health Summit is being hosted in India for the first time. The event is focused
on the theme ‘Scaling Access to Ensure Health Equity’ and aims to find
innovative, inclusive, and sustainable ways to achieve health for all.
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- India’s G20
Sherpa Amitabh Kant called this period "India’s health decade" and
said that as India grows into a $30 trillion economy by 2047, human development
and better quality of life will be central.
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- "India
will grow from a $4 trillion to a $30 trillion economy by 2047, driven by human
development and better quality of life, with health at its core. This is not
just India’s digital decade; it’s India’s health decade," he said.
