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| Well begun: issues E-cards covering 57% of families in less than 6 months, highest in Country | | J&K reaping benefits of Ayushman Bharat-PMJAY | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 27: Ayushman Bharat is one among the world’s largest government healthcare programme and Jammu and Kashmir has not remained aloof from its benefits since its launch.
Ayushman Bharat or Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) since its start has created around 11.45 lakh ‘Golden Cards’ covering around 37 per cent of the eligible population.
Health being a fundamental human right is a significant indicator of all humans to live a better quality life and to achieve this social goal J&K is also taking a lead.
PMJAY was launched on December 1, 2018 across the J&K as it guarantees provision of health insurance cover to the extent of Rs 500,000 on a family floater and cashless basis through an established network of 160 health care providers to the 613648 AB-PMJAY Beneficiary Family Units across the Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh. To implement the scheme at the grass root level, 160 public and private hospitals have been empanelled in J&K with more than 75000 hospitalizations benefitted from the scheme with Pre-Authorization amounting to Rs 42.63 crore, out of which Rs. 32.80 crore have already been paid to the hospitals by the insurance company.
Jammu and Kashmir, with a lot of demographical disadvantages and many inaccessible areas devised innovative practices to reach to the last mile. Some of them are elucidated below:
State Health Agency (SHA) J&K through District Magistrates reached every single beneficiary family through massive Information Education & Communication Campaign and succeeded in generating at least one golden record in 57% of families within first six months of the implementation of the scheme. |
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