PM Modi thanks doctors for their exemplary services amid pandemic

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday thanked doctors for coming to rescue and saving hundreds of thousand lives amid the deadly Covid-19 pandemic.

In his address on National Doctors' Day, the Prime Minister said that services rendered by doctors in last one and a half years is exemplary, while thanking them on behalf of 130 crore Indians.

Taking to Twitter, PM Modi wrote, "India is proud of the efforts of all doctors in fighting COVID-19. 1st July is marked as National Doctors Day. At 3 pm tomorrow, will address the doctors community at a programme organised by IMA."

"Today, when the nation is fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors have worked tirelessly to save lakhs of lives. There have been those doctors who laid down their lives saving the lives of others. I pay homage to all those doctors who made the supreme sacrifice," the Prime Minister said.

Counting government's achievements, he said that the government had allocated 15,000 crores as a special fund to increase the health infrastructure in the nation. "This year too, the budgeted allocation for health has more than doubled to over ₹ 2 lakh crores<" the PM added.

"Today the number of hospitals, the number of AIIMS across the nation, the number of medical colleges have started or are being built. With these, people in the remotest parts of the nation will be able to fulfil their dreams of becoming doctors," he said.

The Prime Minister further expressed gratitude to doctors and said that we are thankful to doctors and healthcare workers for their service, and hence we have brought and enhanced laws for their protection too.

"We have also seen in recent times that many doctors and medical practitioners have actively promoted yoga and wellness. This should have been done in the decades before too, but it is being done now," he added.