Emphasis on cleanliness and hygiene, the prime minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that preventive care is not only economic but also most important part of healthcare. 

He said his government wanted to use effectively their campaigns' Making of India "and" India Digital to get health care in the country of the poorest of the poor. 

He also raised deep concern about the rates of neonatal and maternal mortality in India. 

"It is shameful to compare health centers in our country with those available abroad. Neonatal mortality is a serious concern and so is maternal mortality," said the premier. 

"When a child falls into borewell, families sit in front of televisions and the media gives a running commentary as sadness prevails everywhere, but just realize that hundreds of children die shortly after birth . 

"Many times, both mother and child die from lack of primary health care," he said after inaugurating the renovated Reliance HN Hospital Foundation and part of new construction. 

Addressing the meeting included Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, his wife Nita and Reliance Foundation president, megastar Amitabh Bachchan, Sachin Tendulkar cricket icon Sunil Gavaskar and, Modi said he wanted to "Make in India and initiatives for 'Digital India effective in reaching people better healtcare facilities tools. 

"Today, when diagnostic machines have replaced the physician's experience, largely, I want companies to come to India and manufacture of expensive equipment needed for medical treatment, I want FDI into the sector," a cited report Modi as saying. 

"If hospitals like this I are part of the network that provides medical care through telemedicine, quality healthcare can reach people in remote areas to Digital India may come in handy. I want India Digital Initiative to be used effectively to improve Medicare and education, "he said. 

Modi, who is conducting his campaign 'Clean India with great zeal, stressed the importance of hygiene and preventive care to stay healthy. 

"Preventive care is the most important component of healthcare. Getting treatment for a disease is expensive, staying healthy is cheap. If people get drinking water will not be affected by a range of diseases," he said. 

Recalling how as Chief Minister of Gujarat who developed the banks of Sabarmati river rejuvenating the parched river Narmada water, he said, helped address the problem of drinking water in the city of Ahmedabad. 

"Table of rosewater and people started getting pure drinking water. Before, the poor of the city thronged the hospitals due to poor quality drinking water, but now, in the last 10 years, there has been no epidemic Ahmedabad, "he said. 

Referring to a survey, the prime minister said that the cause of the untimely death of 40 percent of children in Pakistan was because they do not wash their hands before eating. 

"We are no different, we share the same legacy," he said, and praised the initiative of the government of Madhya Pradesh where hundreds of thousands of school children created a new world record by washing collectively their hands on Global Handwashing Day Manos. 

"The time has come for the country to start from here," he said. 

The Prime Minister referred to his address to the UN General Assembly in which he had erected for observing the International Day of Yoga and holistic health care said was the need of the present times. 

"Today, the atmosphere is in favor of holistic health ... for processing of stressful life stress free life. It's time to start respecting life," he said. 

In antiquity, the prime minister said, India had set up new frontiers in the field of science. 

"Mahabharata says Karna was not born from the womb of his mother. This means that people then were aware of genetic science. There must have been a plastic surgeon who fixed the head of an elephant Ganesha," he said, adding the mathematical said Aryabhata centuries, the world has now accepted. 

Modi said as "Kayakalp" (renewal) of the 98-year-old Hospital Foundation Trust, it was possible to "renew and transform" the nation. 

"A true leader works with the intention to wipe the tears of the poor," he said, adding "the way of the health guarantee is more difficult than that of health insurance, but achievable."