AP has highest HWCs in India

Under PM Modi's pet project Ayushman Bharat, about 10,252 HWCs have started operating in India. Among the Indian states, Andhra Pradesh has the highest operational centres with 1,361 centres. Notably, hypertension has been found out to be the most common non-communicable disease which is screened across India in the health and wellness centres.

New Delhi: As many as 10,252 Health and Wellness Centres (HWCs) have been set up across the country under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's dream project Ayushman Bharat with Andhra Pradesh having largest 1,361 centers, according to a report released by the union ministry of health and family welfare on Friday.

Tamil Nadu follows up with 1,318 and Uttar Pradesh with 912 HWCs. Karnataka and Kerala have 700 and 678 HWCs respectively.

The first HWC under Ayushman Bharat was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Jangla in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh on April 14, 2018.

The report also finds hypertension to be the most common non-communicable disease (NCD) which is screened across India in Health and Wellness Centres (HWCs) followed by diabetes and cancer.

So far, since its inception last year, a total of 1,33,84,332 women and men, aged 30 years and above have been screened for common NCDs at these HWCs.

As per the data provided by the Ministry 1,30,03,064 men and women have been screened for hypertension, in which 9,01,994 cases are newly identified while 22,69,192 are on treatment.

Diabetes is the second most screened NCD at wellness centres with 97,78,916 cases in which 8,90,663 are newly identified while 12,13,860 are on treatment.

Among cancers, oral cancer is on the rise in India as 71,85,388 men and women have been screened since 2018 with 13,747 new identified cases while only 1,495 are under treatment.

Out of 1,33,84,332 patients, 16,67,090 are women patients who are diagnosed with breast cancer which comes second in cancer cases screened in HWCs with 12,098 as newly identified ones and 1,848 being treated.

Cervical cancer has overall 12,26,799 cases with 11,923 newly identified while 872 are on treatment.