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Reducing Gap Between Urban
and Rural Health Services
posted in the rural and tribal areas
where they adopt the families and
provide preventive and curative
health services to them. This holistic
program has been introduced with
the aim of benefitting both villagers
as well as medical students. The
primary objective of the program
is to empower the villagers by
providing basic healthcare services
and to increase their awareness
about various public health and
Praful Patel social welfare schemes provided
Administrator, Dadra & Nagar by Central and UT Governments.
Haveli and Daman & Diu, The students help the villagers
Lakshadweep to take the maximum benefits of
these schemes leading to a better
and healthy lifestyle. The students'
The Union Territory of Dadra interaction with families helps in
and Nagar Haveli and Daman improving their communication
and Diu is a small territory and and social skills. This program will
the number of seats allocated also eventually reduce the urban
under the central pool for MBBS rural divide in healthcare services.
were in the single digit. The Prime The school-going children also get
Minister gifted a medical college motivated for higher studies after
with a capacity of 177 students to watching these medical students
improve the standards of medical in their villages on a regular basis.
education as well as to expand It was a privilege for me to
the medical services in the UT. launch the “Village Adoption
The Union Territory will always be Program” on April 7, 2022 on the
indebted to the Prime Minister for occasion of World Health Day in
his visionary thought. UT of Dadra Nagar Haveli and
Inspired by the aim of the Daman & Diu where fifty villages
Prime Minister to make all the were adopted by 506 medical
villages to be self-reliant and students. Once a week, a team of
strong by focusing on their overall ten students visits the adopted
development, NAMO Medical villages along with one teaching
Education and Research Institute and one non-teaching faculty for
in UT of Dadra and Nagar Haveli assistance. The students interact
and Daman and Diu launched a with the PRI members, complete
special initiative 'Village Adoption the family survey focusing mainly
Program' as a part of the MBBS on the vulnerable population
training curriculum. Under this like children, pregnant women,
program, medical students are elderly etc., and also provide
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