12,691 Households Registered below Ayushman Bharat-PMJAY Scheme in A & N Islands; Unregistered Eligible Beneficiaries Being Recognized

Rohit Kumar

Port Blair, 14 November 2022

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, GoI launched the world’s largest well being assurance program named Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) in 2018. The scheme efficiently accomplished 4 years of its implementation on twenty third September 2022. Ayushman Bharat-PMJAY goals to supply cashless remedy value Rs 5 lakh per household per 12 months towards secondary and tertiary hospitalisation care. 

Presently, 12,691 households (40,206 members) have registered below the AB-PMJAY scheme in Andaman and Nicobar Islands and are entitled to cashless remedy at 28,000 empanelled private and non-private hospitals throughout the nation. To create consciousness among the many common public and to establish the unregistered eligible AB–PMJAY beneficiaries, numerous IEC actions are carried out on this UT.

A Beneficiary Identification Camp was organised by the State Health Agency (SHA), Port Blair at UHC Dairy Farm not too long ago. In the camp, 8 new beneficiaries had been recognized and AB-PMJAY playing cards had been created for them. During the camp, the useful resource individuals from the State Health Agency additionally addressed the queries from the general public relating to Ayushman Bharat – PMJAY scheme.

The State Health Agency (SHA), Port Blair additionally organised an consciousness programme on Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) for the scholars and college of Govt. Teachers Training Institute, DIET Campus, Port Blair on 1st November 2022. The session was aimed to create consciousness about the advantages hooked up to the scheme. The college students had been inspired to additional inform and educate their dad and mom and neighborhood concerning the scheme.