{"id":14168,"date":"2021-03-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/uncategorized\/02-03-2021\/3rd-jan-aushadhi-diwas\/"},"modified":"2021-03-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T00:00:00","slug":"3rd-jan-aushadhi-diwas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/02-03-2021\/3rd-jan-aushadhi-diwas","title":{"rendered":"3rd Jan Aushadhi Diwas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News &#8211; Bureau of Pharma PSUs of India (BPPI)<\/strong> is<strong> <\/strong>celebrating 3rd Janaushadhi Diwas with the theme of \u201c<strong>Seva Bhi \u2013 Rozgar bhi\u201d. <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BPPI is the implementing agency of <strong>Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana((PMBJP).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The week-long celebrations will go on till the <strong>7th of March.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jan Aushadhi Kendras conducted Health Check-up Camps across the country.\n<ul>\n<li>These health check-up camps included <strong>Blood Pressure checkup, Sugar level checkup, free doctor consultation, free medicine distribution<\/strong>, etc.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>general public who visited these health camps<\/strong> were also<strong> informed and educated <\/strong>about the <strong>price benefits and quality <\/strong>of the <strong>medicines being sold at Jan Aushadhi Kendra.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana(<\/strong>(<strong>PMBJP<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was launched by the<strong> Department of Pharmaceuticals <\/strong>in November 2008\u00a0 under the name Jan Aushadhi Campaign to <strong>provide quality medicines at affordable prices to the masses.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mission: Create awareness<\/strong> among the <strong>public regarding generic medicines.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Create demand<\/strong> for <strong>generic medicines through medical practitioners<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Create awareness<\/strong> through <strong>education and awareness programs<\/strong> that<strong> high price need not be synonymous with high quality.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Provide all the<strong> related health care products <\/strong>too under the scheme.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Objectives<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Making <strong>quality medicines available at affordable prices<\/strong> for<strong> all, particularly the poor<\/strong> and <strong>disadvantaged, through exclusive outlets<\/strong> &#8220;<strong>Jan Aushadhi Medical Store<\/strong>&#8220;, so as to r<strong>educe out of pocket expenses in healthcare<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Progressed made so far <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The number of stores has grown to <strong>more than 7400 and all 734 <\/strong>districts of the country <strong>are covered. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>PMBJP has achieved sales of <strong>Rs. 433.61 crores (at MRP)<\/strong>during the<strong> financial year 2019-20.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>This has led to savings of approximately <strong>Rs. 2500 crores of the common citizens<\/strong> of the country as <strong>these medicines are cheaper by 50% to 90%<\/strong> of the <strong>average market price.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0In the current financial year 2020-21, s<strong>ale of Rs. 586.50 Crore <\/strong>is made till 28.02.2021, which has led to <strong>savings of about Rs. 3500 Crore<\/strong> to the citizens as compared to the <strong>branded medicines. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This scheme is also <strong>providing a good source of self-employmen<\/strong>t with sustainable and r<strong>egular earnings.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"width:735px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align:top; width:468.0pt\">\n<p><strong>About Jan Aushadhi Store (JAS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>JAS has been opened <strong>across the country. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>All <strong>therapeutic medicines<\/strong> are made available from <strong>Jan Aushadhi Stores.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In addition to <strong>medicines and surgical items supplied by BPPI,<\/strong> Jan Aushadhi stores also <strong>sell allied medical products <\/strong>commonly sold in <strong>chemist shops<\/strong> so as to <strong>improve the viability of running the Jan Aushadhi store.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1701726\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source: PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News &#8211; Bureau of Pharma PSUs of India (BPPI) is celebrating 3rd Janaushadhi Diwas with the theme of \u201cSeva Bhi \u2013 Rozgar bhi\u201d. BPPI is the implementing agency of Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana((PMBJP). The week-long celebrations will go on till the 7th of March. Key Points Jan Aushadhi Kendras conducted Health Check-up Camps across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2023\/07\/1131094current-affairs (1).jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}