AYUSHMAN BHARAT PRADHAN MANTRI - JAN AROGYA YOJANA (AB- PMJAY) – GOVERNMENT SCHEME
News: 26 crore Ayushman Cards created
under AB- PMJAY so far
What's
in the news?
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PMJAY is the world's largest health assurance scheme.
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Centrally
Sponsored scheme.
Aim:
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Providing a health cover of Rs. 5 lakhs per family per year for
secondary and tertiary care hospitalization to poor and vulnerable families.
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The benefit cover will also include pre and post-hospitalisation expenses.
Beneficiaries:
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Identified on the basis of select
deprivation and occupational criteria, in rural and urban areas respectively,
as per SECC database of 2011.
Implementing
agency - National Health
Authority at national level.
Apex
body - State
health agency to implement concern state.
Nodal
Ministry
- Ministry
of Health and family welfare.
Funding
pattern:
Sharing Centre and State is 60:40 ratio in all States except North
Eastern States and the three Himalayan States, where the ratio is 90:10.
Ayushman
Bharat – Health and Wellness Centres (AB-HWCs):
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Comprehensive need-based healthcare
services covering maternal and child health services and non-communicable
diseases, including free essential drugs and diagnostic services are provided
free of cost to all citizens of the country.