Govt plans to bring down knee surgery cost

In the coming days, all facilities for carrying out knee operations will also be made available

After the recent move to put a cap on the price of coronary stents, the government is working on measures to bring down the expenditure on knee surgeries, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said during his Independence Day speech in New Delhi.

Modi said, “The expenditure on conducting operations, on stents have gone down in our country. In the coming days, all facilities for carrying out knee operations will also be made available. It is our endeavour that such expenses for the poor and the middle class goes down and we are taking steps for that,” he said.

Modi further said that the government has now decided to make dialysis facilities, which were earlier available only at the state headquarters, would be made available in each district centres of the country.