India's experience and capabilities in providing affordable healthcare is available for use to all developing countries, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the first-ever high-level meeting on Universal Health Coverage here on Monday, underscoring that a healthy life is the right of every person.

Addressing the meeting, Prime Minister Modi said, "Health does not simply mean freedom from diseases. A healthy life is everyone persons' right."

"The onus for this is on our government to make every possible effort to ensure this," Modi said at the meeting, which will launch new efforts to provide access for all to affordable, inclusive and resilient health systems.

Modi said India's efforts on affordable healthcare are not limited to just its own boundaries.

"We have helped to provide access to affordable healthcare by way of telemedicine to several other countries especially African countries and we will continue to do so. Our experience and our capabilities are available for use to all developing countries," he said.

Modi began his engagements at the 74th Session of the UN General Assembly by addressing the Climate Action Summit hosted by Secretary General Antonio Guterres Monday in the General Assembly Hall. This was followed by his speech at the Universal Health Coverage meeting.

Modi told the world leaders and ministers at the summit that the global welfare begins with people's welfare, and health is an important component of it and added that India has taken a holistic approach towards the health sector.

He outlined the four main pillars of healthcare that India focuses on.

"The first pillar is preventive healthcare. We have laid special emphasis on yoga, ayurveda and fitness," he said adding that India is building more than 125,000 wellness centres and this focus has helped in controlling life style diseases such as diabetes, blood pressure and depression.

Voicing concern over the harmful effects of e-cigarettes, Modi said the "craze for e-cigarettes is a mater of concern for us" due to which India has banned the commodity to "save the youth from this very severe problem".

Further, the Clean India Campaign has contributed towards saving millions of lives and the government has also paid special attention to immunization. Apart from introducing new vaccines, the government has also improved access to vaccination in far flung areas.