NEW DELHI: Over 1.3 crore people have been screened for diabetes, hypertension and common cancers like oral, breast and cervical cancer in the last one year at around 10,000 health and wellness centres (HWCs), the preventive healthcare arm of the government’s flagship Ayushman Bharat scheme.Since the launch of the first HWC in Chhattisgarh by PM Narendra Modi in April last year, a total of 10,252 HWCs have been operationalised. However, nearly 50% of these centres are in just five states —Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala, government data shows.Andhra Pradesh has operationalised 1,361 HWCs, Tamil Nadu 1,318, UP 912, Karnataka 700 and Kerala 678 HWCs. Moreover, with around 10,000 such centres, the government is still short of its target of setting up 15,000 HWCs during 2018-19. The government plans to set up another 25,000 centres next year. The government aims to establish 1.53 lakh HWCs by 2022.This assumes significance as preventive care has been on top of the government’s healthcare agenda. Apart from immunisation coverage, the government had aimed to provide door-to-door free screening for non-communicable diseases because of their rapidly increasing incidence and late diagnosis leading to high rate of mortality.The data shows over 1.30 crore people were screened to check for hypertension, 97.78 lakh were tested for diabetes, whereas 71.85 lakh were screened for oral cancer. For breast and cervical cancer, 16.67 lakh and 12.26 lakh were tested, respectively.