● A Rare disease is a health condition of low prevalence that affects a small number of people compared with other prevalent diseases in the general population.
● Most rare diseases are genetic and are present throughout a person’s entire life, even if symptoms do not immediately appear.
● The most common rare diseases recorded in India are Haemophilia, Thalassemia, sickle-cell anaemia and primary immunodeficiency in children, auto-immune diseases among others.
● India has about 70 million patients of rare diseases.
Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi(RAN)
● Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
● Purpose: The Scheme provides financial assistance to patients, living below poverty line and who are suffering from major life threatening diseases, to receive medical treatment at any of the super specialty Government hospitals / institutes.
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