The Narendra Modi government rolled out its ambitious medical insurance scheme Ayushman Bharat recently. Launched just ahead of the 2019 parliamentary elections, it seeks to benefit the poorest of the poor in Bharat (the rural India) and the have-nots of urban India, writes Sandeep Datta of Elets News Network (ENN).
Reflecting its determination to take healthcare facilities to over 100 million families, the Centre’s flagship scheme is arguably world’s biggest health financing scheme. One can gauge its significance from the fact that it is aimed to cover 100 million families or, nearly 50 crore people!
During this year’s Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced that while the scheme would initially cover 10 crore poor families as per the socio-economic census of 2011, in the coming days it will also benefit the lower middle-class, middle-class and upper-middle class in terms of jobs in the medical sector, as new hospitals will open in Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities.
On September 23, the Prime Minister launched Ayushman Bharat, the world’s largest governmentfunded healthcare scheme which has been renamed PM Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY). It was set to become operational two days later on the birth anniversary of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay, the co-founder of the ruling BJP and an RSS ideologue.
The scheme was launched from Ranchi reportedly on the request of Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das. All National Democratic Alliance (NDA) chief ministers launched the scheme from their respective States as well on September 23.
A section of experts has lauded the Government for taking landmark step in healthcare ecosystem.
“These initiatives will transform the healthcare infrastructure of the State. The roll out of the Scheme was slated to be on September 25 as per August 15 announcement, however, implementing it two days prior to the set schedule and selection of state to kick it offmanifest the confidence of the government and its agencies in the readiness of the scheme,” Daljit Singh, President, Healthcare Federation of India (NATHEALTH) said.
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