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Get your PM-JAY card registered online to get a health assurance scheme from NHA. Visit Ayushman Bharat Yojana website for hospital list and toll-free number.

In Ayushman Bharat, primary and secondary healthcare complement each other

Ayuhsman Bharat05 Aug, 2020Business

Recent media reports, including ones in this newspaper, have raised concerns that Ayushman Bharat promotes secondary and tertiary care at the cost of primary care. These reports attribute these concerns to Amartaya Senâ€™s recent comments on the scheme, which may have been taken out of context.

Blueprint for a healthy India: Ayushman Bharat must tackle several challenges if it is to deliver ta

Ayuhsman Bharat30 Jul, 2020Business

A healthy India is a wealthy India. For an emerging economic superpower, health of its people is critical for economic productivity. Ayushman Bharat, which recently completed a year of existence, was conceptualised as an insurance based, healthcare delivery model that dovetails both preventive and curative healthcare at a coverage of Rs 5,00,000 per family per year.

Achieving Universal Coverage

Ayuhsman Bharat27 Jul, 2020Business

Exactly one year ago, the government of India announced the arrival of the landmark Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojna (PM-JAY), or Ayushman Bharat, as it has come to be known. The plan was to provide free healthcare to the most economically poor 50 crore Indians, who otherwise would have no access to quality care. The idea was simple and to be executed in two phases.

Ayushman Bharat, a change whose time has come

Ayuhsman Bharat24 Jul, 2020Legal

Sixteen years ago, when there was drought in Karnataka, farmers lost the capacity to buy healthcare. I was able to convince the state government to launch a micro health insurance scheme through cooperative societies with a premium of Rs 5 per month per person. The government was kind enough to agree to be the reinsurer. Four hundred hospitals across the state agreed to treat these patients.

One year of Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana: 50 lakh hospital treatments with an ey

Ayuhsman Bharat23 Jul, 2020Business

More than half a crore treatments have been availed by poor and vulnerable Indians through Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY), the flagship scheme of the Government of India in its first one year of operation. One year of Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana: 50 lakh hospital treatments with an eye towards universal health coverage

A blueprint for making Ayushman Bharat truly effective on the ground | Opinion

Ayuhsman Bharat21 Jul, 2020Business

The health and wellness centres (HWCs) under the Ayushman Bharat scheme have the potential to help achieve the Universal Health Coverage goal, but inadequate infrastructure and an insufficiently skilled workforce remain major roadblocks.

The challenging quest for universal health coverage | Opinion

Ayuhsman Bharat18 Jul, 2020Business

The dream of providing universal health coverage (UHC) has never been as close to reality as it is now. As we mark the UHC Day, let us acknowledge that India needs UHC.

PMJAY can help bridge the gender gap in availing of healthcare services

Ayuhsman Bharat17 Jul, 2020Business

There is a large gap in the use of public services in the country. The â€œ2018 Gender Gap Indexâ€ of the World Economic Forum and its sub-index, â€œHealth and Survivalâ€ â€” India ranks 108 in the overall index and 147th out of 149 in the sub-index â€” shine a light on this challenge.

Powering the health-care engine with innovation

Ayuhsman Bharat15 Jul, 2020Finance

There is potential for private care providers, innovators and start-ups to be partners in the Ayushman Bharat scheme. It has been close to 18 months since the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, launched the country-wide implementation of Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY), or the national health protection scheme.

Covid-19: Private sector has a key role in the battle

Ayuhsman Bharat14 Jul, 2020Business

The State cannot fight the pandemic alone. It needs help on testing, treatment, PPEs, and a lot more. Countries across the development spectrum are grappling with an unprecedented situation in which a seemingly innocuous viral illness, the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), has spiralled into a global pandemic in less than 90 days. It has infected more than 1.7 million people in more than 200 countries, claimed over 100,000 lives, and brought most of the world to a standstill.