December 02, 2019 7:11 am
The programme aims to provide annual health cover of Rs 5 lakh per family to 10.74 families listed as per “deprivation” in the socio-economic caste census.
September 18, 2019 6:52 am
So far, 97 hospitals across the country have already been de-empanelled by the authority which administers PMJAY.
June 30, 2019 8:39 am
This, despite the fact that the Pradhan Mantri National Dialysis Programme, which was rolled out in 2016, also provides free dialysis to kidney patients in district hospitals.
April 30, 2019 10:25 am
Equity in healthcare will unequivocally impact everyone, most of all the ones who are at risk of diving deeper into poverty from a catastrophic illness.
January 11, 2019 4:45 am
The West Bengal government had initially declined to participate in the Ayushman Bharat scheme as it already had its own health protection scheme called Swasthya Sathi.
October 04, 2018 12:44 am
The government has decided to extend the scheme to provide Rs 5 lakh insurance cover to 42 lakh of the total 61 lakh families in the state.
October 03, 2018 5:28 am
The PMJAY has empanelled 79 government hospitals in Maharashtra. The scheme, launched under the name Ayushman Bharat, covers 83 lakh beneficiaries and provides 1,300 medical procedures with a cap of Rs 5 lakh.
September 21, 2018 8:20 am
Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana rolls out Sunday. The Indian Express goes to Mewat in Haryana for a ground check: how beneficiaries are identified, how health system will change, public and private.
September 03, 2018 6:59 am
While 40-50 per cent patients in AIIMS Delhi are from outside the state, for AIIMS Bhubaneswar the figure is about 20 per cent.
August 29, 2018 1:17 am
The National Health Agency, the implementing authority of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, has also put in place 100 curbs including authentication, authorisation, passwords, firewalls and data encryption to protect the estimated 50 crore beneficiaries.