Union Minister for Healthcare and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya on Saturday said that the government is improving the healthcare and medical education sectors through a holistic approach that not only envisages creating more quality healthcare infrastructure but also trained manpower to efficiently run institutions. 

"Health is today linked with development because only a healthy society can become a developed society," stated Mandaviya during his address to the plenary session of the Uttar Pradesh Global Investors Summit.

Encouraging investors and businesses to encash on the opportunities available in the healthcare and medical education sectors in the state, Mandaviya stated that “the govt has created a conducive ecosystem for businesses to grow and has brought in long-term policies to encourage investors in the healthcare sector”. 

He emphasized that because of the policies of the government, there are over 100 unicorns in the country today. Mandaviya also highlighted that govt schemes like the Ayushman Bharat initiative has empowered and enabled even the poorest of the poor to benefit from quality treatment, even in private medical institutions.

The Union Health Minister also stated that the country is today 65 per cent dependent on import of medical devices and urged entrepreneurs to reduce this high dependency. Reminding the audience of India successfully reducing the dependency of APIs for critical medicines in recent years, he also encouraged them to innovate in producing medical devices indigenously.