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India's Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba has urged the private sector to come forward and join the PM Jan Arogya Yojana movement for delivering tertiary care to some of the most vulnerable sections of the country's population.

Addressing a webinar during the three-day FICCI HEAL-2020 event, Mr Gauba said, “The private sector hospitals, particularly the big groups, should come forward and join this platform.”

The Cabinet Secretary said that as a country we have emerged from a state of total dependence on imports to being exporters of Covid-19 necessary medical items.

“Today we have 187 labs in the government sector and 749 private testing labs for Covid testing,” he added.

“Due to present Covid-19 situation, we must improve healthcare indicators and make them comparable to the developing countries,” added Mr Gauba.

Mr Gauba urged FICCI and the healthcare industry to launch mass awareness on Covid-19 appropriate behaviour as economic activities open up.

With the advent of the festival season and winters, it is extremely important that people don’t let their guard down, he further added.

Dr Sangita Reddy, President, FICCI, said that there has been no time in the history that healthcare has been so centre-stage.

“India has handled the Covid crisis with tremendous innovation, bravery, alacrity and has come together in a way that we can all actually be very proud of,” she said.