'India will play key role in cost-effective healthcare solutions'

Addressing the Asia Health 2020 summit of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Union Minister Piyush Goyal today said that India will play a key role in ensuring innovative healthcare solutions in the future.

New Delhi: Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said that India will play an important role in ensuring cost-effective and innovative healthcare solutions for the future.

Goyal, the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, made the comment while addressing the Asia Health 2020 summit of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

Appreciating the CII's efforts, Goyal said that engagements such as Asia Health 2020 will help in germinating new ideas, new solutions to many problems of the country and also help develop proper last mile connectivity and delivery of the COVID vaccine when available.

"We will work in a public-private partnership to engage and ensure the availability of proper COVID healthcare to over 1.3 billion Indians. This will ensure the success in the battles that lie ahead," he said.

Goyal stressed on the importance of ensuring vaccines at an affordable price to all, including less developed countries and the poor, adding that it would be a collective responsibility for everyone.

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India will play an important role in ensuring cost-effective and innovative healthcare solutions for future, he added.

Speaking about the COVID vaccine, Goyal said: "Our home-grown vaccine is progressing at rapid speed but as the Prime Minister said, till the time we get a vaccine shot, we absolutely cannot be complacent about the pandemic."

He added that history would remember India's contribution in the fight against the pandemic.

Describing the lockdown in the country as fully justified, he said that WHO has often said that lockdown in India truly helped the nation prepare itself for the pandemic and ensured that Indians come out of pandemic relatively better than many other developed countries.

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