Naidu launches ‘Sanjeevani’ digital health project in Andhra

Aspari (Andhra Pradesh):  Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday said that the TDP-led government is working towards building a healthy Andhra Pradesh, by leveraging technology-driven healthcare.

Addressing a public meeting here after launching the pilot project of ‘Sanjeevani’, a digital health record programme, the CM said it aims to protect public health through predictive, preventive and curative means.

“We are working with the goal of achieving a healthy Andhra Pradesh and ‘Sanjeevani’ follows predictive, preventive and curative means for protecting public health,” said Naidu.

According to the CM, data from Primary Health Centres (PHCs) to the state level will be synced and every person’s health profile will be recorded through ‘Sanjeevani’.

‘Sanjeevani’ project was taken up to create people’s personal health records and thereby offer health protection, and that up to 80 lakh people in the state are battling severe illnesses.

Naidu said health experts will offer services on medicines and nutrition through tele-consultations and promised to launch a “heath X’ app.

Likewise, he said emergency services for non-communicable diseases will be provided through ‘Sanjeevani’, and screening tests, 104 mobile medical units, laboratory services and others will be brought onto to a single digital platform.

Looking ahead, the CM said a far more advanced health system will be built through “AI doctor” support, predictive analytics, tele-medicine, remote care services and digital nerve centres.

Further, Naidu alleged that the previous YSRCP government had attempted to deprive people of their lands by retaining them under the 22 – A list, and said the government has taken up a resurvey exercise, along with blockchain technology to protect them.

By March 2027, he said resurvey will be completed, he said.

Referring to deficient rainfall and reduced inflows into Krishna river due to El Nino conditions, Naidu said the government launched the ‘Jaladhara’ programme to increase ground water level.

Taking these conditions into consideration, the CM called on farmers to go for alternative crops.

Assuring completion of the Rs 1,768-crore Vedavati project in Kurnool district to supply water, Naidu said 36 irrigation projects will be completed in the next three years.

Further, Naidu said the government will turn Rayalaseema into a horticulture hub.

All of us should remember that there is no profit with paddy, he said, noting that food habits have changed all over the world and called on farmers to understand these changed habits.

The future of the state will depend on horticulture and Rayalaseema is catering to the highest share of fruits production in the country, said the CM.

We will spend Rs 1 lakh crore, which includes Rs 40,000 crore by the government and Rs 60,000 crore by private industry to transform Rayalaseema into a global horticulture hub, said the CM.