Tarun Karthick
Campbell Bay, 09 January 2023
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, GoI launched the world’s largest well being assurance program Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) in 2018. The scheme has accomplished 4 years on twenty third September 2022.
Ayushman Bharat-PMJAY goals to offer cashless therapy price Rs 5 lakh per household per yr towards secondary and tertiary hospitalisation care. Presently, 12,848 households (40,465 members) have registered beneath the AB-PMJAY scheme in A & N Islands and are entitled to cashless therapy at 28,000 empanelled private and non-private hospitals throughout the nation. To create consciousness among the many normal public and to establish the unregistered eligible AB–PMJAY beneficiaries varied IEC actions are carried out in A & N Islands.
On 4th January 2023, AB-PMJAY card technology drive was organised by State Health Agency (SHA), A&N Islands at Gram Panchayat Office, Mithakhari. 53 individuals in whole attended the camp, out of which, 15 new unregistered eligible beneficiaries have been recognized and playing cards have been generated for them. During the camp, the useful resource individual from the State Health Agency additionally addressed the queries from the general public about Ayushman Bharat – PMJAY scheme and likewise defined the eligibility standards to the general public.
