Tarun Karthick
Port Blair, 30 March 2023
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, GoI has launched the world’s largest well being assurance program named Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) in 2018. The scheme has efficiently accomplished 4 years of its implementation on twenty third September, 2022.
Ayushman Bharat-PMJAY goals to supply cashless remedy price Rs 5 lakh per household per 12 months in opposition to secondary and tertiary hospitalisation care. Presently, 12,991 households (40,636 members) have registered beneath the AB-PMJAY scheme in A & N Islands and are entitled for cashless remedy 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 beneficiary varied IEC actions are performed on this UT.
AB-PMJAY card technology drives had been organised by the State Health Agency (SHA), Port Blair at Gram Panchayat, Tushnabad and Calicut. A complete of 194 folks attended the camps, out of which, 35 new unregistered eligible beneficiaries had been recognized and playing cards had been created for them.
During the camp, the useful resource particular person from the State Health Agency, addressed the queries of the general public pertaining to Ayushman Bharat – PMJAY scheme and likewise defined the eligibility standards to the general public and the PRI members current there.
