Overview

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the time‑bound campaign on September 17 alongside Poshan Maah, calling it a mass push for women‑led health and development.
• States and cities began rollouts with concrete targets, including Delhi planning 7,500 camps, Mumbai 350, and Telangana announcing 20,639 women’s camps.
• Early turnout figures reported include over 3,000 women screened at 34 Mumbai sites on day one, about 70,000 women screened in Odisha by early afternoon, and 498 beneficiaries at Pune’s inaugural camp.
• The service package prioritises screening for anaemia, hypertension, diabetes, TB, sickle cell disease, and common cancers, with community mobilisation by ASHAs, ANMs and Anganwadi workers and monitoring via the SASHAKT portal.
• At the launch, Modi handed over the one croreth sickle cell card and said more than five crore people have been screened under the National Sickle Cell Anaemia Mission.