Tarun Karthick
Campbell Bay, 09 January 2023
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, GoI launched the world’s largest health assurance program Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) in 2018. The scheme has completed 4 years on 23rd September 2022.
Ayushman Bharat-PMJAY aims to provide cashless treatment worth Rs 5 lakh per family per year against secondary and tertiary hospitalisation care. Presently, 12,848 families (40,465 members) have registered under the AB-PMJAY scheme in A & N Islands and are entitled to cashless treatment at 28,000 empanelled public and private hospitals across the country. To create awareness among the general public and to identify the unregistered eligible AB–PMJAY beneficiaries various IEC activities are conducted in A & N Islands.
On 4th January 2023, AB-PMJAY card generation drive was organised by State Health Agency (SHA), A&N Islands at Gram Panchayat Office, Mithakhari. 53 people in total attended the camp, out of which, 15 new unregistered eligible beneficiaries were identified and cards were generated for them. During the camp, the resource person from the State Health Agency also addressed the queries from the public about Ayushman Bharat – PMJAY scheme and also explained the eligibility criteria to the public.