It is a pan-India initiative of the health ministry which caters to people across the globe.
It is focused on positioning India as a global leader in health and to boost medical tourism in the country.
It involves a digital portal called Medical Value Travel, which will be a window of integrated Indian health care for the world.
It involves both central and the state governments and will offer modern medicine as well as traditional medicine.
PEN PLUS Strategy
It is focused on alleviating the non-communicable disease (NCD) burden among the poorest children and young adults.
It increases the accessibility and quality of chronic care services for severe NCDs in the rural areas of low- and lower-middle-income countries (LLMICs).
It can treat diseases like type 1 diabetes, advanced rheumatic and congenital heart disease (RHD/CHD), and sickle cell disease (SCD) for which treatment had not previously been available.
