Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressing the importance of healthcare in Gujarat said that healthcare facilities affected the poor adversely and they wanted to change that. He also spoke about those who issued 'fatwas' against nationalists saying that it was the government's nationalism that made them get Father Tom and Father Prem back.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressing the importance of healthcare in Gujarat said that healthcare facilities affected the poor adversely and they wanted to change that. He also spoke about those who issued 'fatwas' against nationalists saying that it was the government's nationalism that made them get Father Tom and Father Prem back.
''Lack of healthcare facilities affects the poor adversely. We want to change that and that is why we made stents cheaper,'' Modi said in Ahmedabad on Sunday.
Priority is to improve health infrastructure and boost innovation in the sector, he added.
Modi also had a word of praise for External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.
"Have you seen how active Sushma Swaraj ji is? Guided by humanitarian values, she is serving so many people in need- they can be in any part of the world but she helps them,'' Modi said.
Our nurses were stranded in West Asia. When these nurses, who are doing such humanitarian work, are stranded how can anyone sleep in peace? Every effort was undertaken to bring them back home, Modi added.
Speaking about the efforts taken by the Central government to bring back father Tom Uzhunnalil, who was freed after being kept in captivity by ISIS for 18 months in strife-torn Yemen, Modi said those who are releasing Fatwas against 'nationalists' should see the effort we undertook to get Father Tom back.
He said: “Those who are releasing Fatwas against 'nationalists' should see the effort we undertook to get Father Tom back. Father Tom was guided by his love for Lord Christ & was working. We got Father Tom back. We also got back Father Prem, who was kidnapped in Afghanistan. It is our 'nationalism' that made us get Father Tom and Father Prem back. When Judith D'Souza was kidnapped, we once again did whatever we could to bring this daughter of India back.”
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