After Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh govt makes diabetes treatment free

Ahmedabad

Finance Minister of Gujarat Shri Saurabh Patel recently in his budget speech announced free of charge life time medicines for diabetes and blood pressure patients through government hospitals across the state.

Neighboring Madhya Pradesh state has now also made similar announcement. Madhya Pradesh government will offer free treatment to all diabetes patients through all district health facilities. The government has inked pact with Nova Nodisk Education Foundation, Bengaluru and Novartis Private Ltd, Mumbai. At district level NSD clinics diabetes patients will be offered free diagnosis, consulting and treatment.

It should be mentioned that Finance Minister of Gujarat had in his budget speech said: Treatment of diabetes and blood pressure is very expensive for poor and middle class families. For their relief, Government has taken a historic decision to provide medicines free of charge for life time through government hospitals. A provision of Rs 272 crore to provide total 575 medicines free of charge by Government hospitals….. Screening of lacs of women is carried out for uterus cancer and breast cancer. It has been planned to provide free of charge treatment in Government specialty and Super specialty hospitals to help affected women without any income limit.

– DeshGujarat