6 lakh people avail treatment under Ayushman Bharat – PM-JAY in less than 3 months

Around 30 lakh beneficiary e-cards have been generated facilitating access to quality healthcare

In less than 90 days since the launch, more than 6 lakh people have received treatment under Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY). Launched on September 23, 2018, by the Prime Minister from Ranchi, the scheme has provided secondary and tertiary care benefits worth over ₹ 800 crores to beneficiaries across the country. PM-JAY aims to provide a health cover of ₹ 5 lakh per family annually to more than 10.74 crore poor families or 50 crore people for secondary and tertiary care hospitalisation through a network of empaneled health care providers.

In addition, around 30 lakh beneficiary e-cards have been generated facilitating access to quality healthcare under the scheme to 3 million poor. Currently more than 16,000 hospitals have been empaneled or are in the process of empanelment under PM-JAY. Out of these, 8,807 or 55 per cent are private hospitals.

Jagat Prakash Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, said, “Dedicated to providing the best in class inpatient care for serious illnesses, PM-JAY has performing well so far, two-thirds of the total hospital admission amount of more than ₹ 800 crores has been utilised towards tertiary care procedures or treatment for serious illnesses.” “Cardiology and cardio-thoracic and vascular procedures such as angioplasty, coronary artery bypass graft and valve replacement are the top three packages of PM-JAY worth more than ₹ 297 crores and account for 37 per cent of the total admission amount,” he added.

Nearly 3,500 Common Service Centres (CSCs), a network of single-window service providers, run by village level entrepreneurs (VLEs), that are a part of the government’s rural outreach programme for delivery of digital services, have been engaged for verification of Ayushman Bharat beneficiaries through generation of PM-JAY e-cards across 13 states.