Uttar Pradesh will implement artificial intelligence-based healthcare projects worth around ₹2,000 crore under the UP AI Mission, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced. The projects will be rolled out in phases over the next three years to support healthcare delivery, policy planning, and service outreach.
The announcement was made at the Uttar Pradesh AI & Health Innovation Conference held in Lucknow. The two-day event was organised by Elets Technomedia in collaboration with the state Departments of Health & Family Welfare and IT & Electronics, and is part of the India AI Impact Summit 2026.
The Chief Minister said AI would be used to support governance by enabling real-time data collection, disease surveillance, and monitoring of epidemics and vector-borne diseases, improving health policy formulation and implementation.
Early use cases are already emerging in the state. Fatehpur district has become the first in Uttar Pradesh to deploy an AI-based Smart Vaccination Tracking System to monitor child immunisation. Launched as a pilot in Hathgam block on September 1, the system has helped raise vaccination coverage to 95 percent, according to district officials, and is now being prepared for district-wide rollout.
The system sends vaccination reminders and updates to parents through WhatsApp, including information on Village Health and Nutrition Day sessions. Using real-time data analysis, it identifies children who have missed doses and areas with low coverage, enabling targeted follow-up. Automatic reminders are sent to mothers before scheduled vaccination dates, while vaccine demand and supply planning has also improved. A separate mobile application has been developed for Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANMs), providing due lists of children pending vaccination and allowing vaccination records to be updated through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of MCP cards.
Infrastructure and health systems
Adityanath said the state is developing healthcare and technology infrastructure, including a Medical Device Park, a Pharma Park, a MedTech Centre of Excellence in Lucknow, an AI and innovation-based entrepreneurship centre in Gautam Buddha Nagar, a Centre of Excellence at IIT Kanpur, and plans to develop Lucknow as an AI City.
He added that technology-based systems introduced over the past eight years such as e-POS machines at fair price shops, elimination of fake ration cards, and Direct Benefit Transfer have improved service delivery.
On healthcare infrastructure, the Chief Minister said the number of medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh has increased from 40 before 2017 to 81. He also said ICU facilities, oxygen plants, dialysis units, blood banks, digital diagnostics, virtual ICUs, and telemedicine services are now available across districts.
Referring to disease control, he said encephalitis-related deaths have reduced to zero, while AI-based tools are being deployed to strengthen tuberculosis detection, treatment monitoring, and risk mapping.
The conference was attended by Union Minister Jitin Prasada, Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak, IT and Electronics Minister Sunil Sharma, Minister of State Ajit Pal, NITI Aayog member Dr V.K. Paul, Additional Chief Secretary (Medical) Amit Kumar Ghosh, and health and technology experts.
Wider use of AI in healthcare
Officials said Uttar Pradesh is expanding AI use across healthcare programmes using data from platforms such as the Health Management Information System (HMIS), the Reproductive and Child Health portal, the Nikshay portal for tuberculosis control, and the e-Sanjeevani telemedicine service.
AI-based analytics are being used to support planning, resource allocation, and disease surveillance. AI-assisted clinical decision support tools are being introduced in telemedicine and primary care, while pilot programmes are underway for early detection of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and hypertension.
