49% Ayushman Bharat card recipients are ladies, informs Modi govt
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On Friday (July 28), the Union Minister of State for Health SP Singh Baghel knowledgeable the Lok Sabha that about 49% Ayushman Bharat card holders are ladies.
He additionally added that 141 well being packages, supplied below the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY), cater to ladies completely. According to the Modi authorities, ladies constituted about 48% of the overall authorised hospital admissions below the medical health insurance scheme.
Reportedly, a complete of 4.78 crore and 9.22 crore Ayushman Bharat playing cards had been disbursed throughout 2019-20 and 2022-23. SP Singh Baghel emphasised that the variety of Ayushman playing cards has elevated exponentially over the previous few years.
It should be talked about that the Union authorities gives ₹5 lakh well being cowl per household every year to the beneficiaries below the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY).
Indian govt operationalises 1.5 lakh Ayushman Bharat Health & Wellness Centres by 2022 finish
In an announcement on December 29 final 12 months, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) knowledgeable that 1,50,000 Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Centres (AB-HWCs) had been operationalised earlier than the deadline of December 31, 2023.
PM Narendra Modi applauded the efforts of the nation in carrying out this feat earlier than the set deadline, and mentioned that these centres will serve to supply residents all throughout the nation to simply entry and avail major healthcare services.
The first part of the initiative is the Health & Wellness Centres (HWCs), which have been created to ship Comprehensive Primary Health Care, that’s common and free to customers, with a deal with wellness and the supply of an expanded vary of companies nearer to the group.
The second part is the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) which gives medical health insurance cowl of Rs. 5 lakhs per 12 months to over 10 crore poor and susceptible households for searching for secondary and tertiary care.
HWCs are envisaged to ship expanded vary companies that transcend Maternal and youngster well being care companies to incorporate look after non-communicable illnesses, palliative and rehabilitative care, Oral, Eye and ENT care, psychological well being and first stage look after emergencies and trauma , together with free important medicine and diagnostic companies.
