Mumbai : Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday said preventive health care and lifestyle should be given importance as a way to keep healthy, while inaugurating the Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital here.
He praised the Reliance Foundation for rebuilding the Hurkisondas Nurrotumdas Hospital and said the hospital has undergone a transformation and is seeing a new beginning.
Reliance Foundation — the not-for-profit arm of Reliance Industries — took over the financially ailing tertiary-care Hurkisondas Nurrotumdas Hospital eight years ago. Construction began three years ago.
The hospital, in its 90th year, has been completely rebuilt by Reliance Foundation into a modern 19-storey tower with two heritage wings. The foundation is headed by Nita Ambani.
Speaking to a star-studded gathering, including Bollywood personalities, cricketers and industrialists, Modi also said that under the ‘Make in India’ campaign it is needed to build expensive medical equipment in India so that it becomes affordable.
He also spoke on the need to spread telemedicine to the farthest corners of the country to help the poor.
Modi said the availability of pure drinking water is one of the most important and basic ways to ensure good health, and also stressed on the need to impart the importance of washing hands to children.