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IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULES -General Studies-02 Union Health Minister approves National Policy for Rare Diseases, 2021. Source: PIB India News Harsh Vardhan, Union Health & Family Welfare Minister approved the “National Policy for Rare Diseases 2021”. Aim: The Rare Diseases Policy aims to lower the high cost of treatment for rare diseases with increased focus on indigenous research with the help of a National Consortium to be set up with Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare as convenor. Increased focus of research and development and local production of medicines will lower the cost of treatment for rare diseases. The policy also envisage creation of a national hospital based registry of rare diseases so that adequate data is available for definition of rare diseases and for research and development…