Yak Modi Launches Ayushman Bharat System : Highlights

On the occasion of Ambedkar Jayanti, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched the 1st stage of the government's ambitious Ayushman Bharat healthcare programme by inaugurating its outset wellness view inward Bijapur (Chhattisgarh). This is a National Health Protection Scheme, which is aimed at creating a network of 1.5 lakh health too wellness centres at an estimated damage of ₹1200 crore. Here are the major highlights of this programme.

Highlights of Ayushman Bharat National Health Protection Scheme

Ayushman Bharat is National Health Protection Scheme, which volition comprehend over 10 crore pathetic too vulnerable families (approximately fifty crore beneficiaries) providing coverage upto five lakh rupees per menage unit of measurement per twelvemonth for secondary too 3rd help hospitalization. Ayushman Bharat - National Health Protection Mission volition subsume the on-going centrally sponsored schemes - Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) and the Senior Citizen Health Insurance Scheme (SCHIS).

This programme has twin missions. They are,

1. Creating a network of health too wellness centres to deliver comprehensive original healthcare unopen to the community.
2. Providing insurance comprehend to twoscore per cent of India's population, that is close deprived, for secondary too 3rd care, including for instance, hospitalisation costs.

Features of Ayushman Bharat :

• This system volition conduct keep a defined produce goodness comprehend of Rs. five lakh per menage unit of measurement per year.
• Benefits of the system are portable across the dry reason too a beneficiary covered nether the system volition last allowed to conduct keep cashless benefits from whatever public/private empanelled hospitals across the country.
• This volition last an entitlement based system amongst entitlement decided on the footing of deprivation criteria inward the SECC (Socio Economic Caste Census) database.
• The beneficiaries tin avail benefits inward both populace too empanelled somebody facilities.
• To command costs, the payments for handling volition last done on packet charge per unit of measurement (to last defined past times the Government inward advance) basis.
• One of the amount principles of this system is to co-operative federalism too flexibility to states.
• States would ask to conduct keep State Health Agency (SHA) to implement the scheme.
• In partnership amongst NITI Aayog, a robust, modular, scalable too interoperable information technology platform volition last made operational which volition entail a paperless, cashless transaction.

Note : The Ayushman Bharat system was approved past times the Union Cabinet on March 21 this twelvemonth amongst budgetary back upwardly of Rs 10,500 crore.

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