One of the millions of rupees of people treated under Ayushman Bharat scheme since its launch | India News

NEW DELHI : More than a million rupees treatments worth Rs 13,412 crore were provided under Ayushman Bharat health insurance scheme since its launch in September of 2018, even as the hospitalization was of great impact during the months of April and May due to the national security lockdown in the middle of Covid-19 outbreak.
The milestone saw the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi twitter, its interaction with Pooja Thapa of Meghalaya, who was the beneficiary number 1 million rupees. He also thanked the medical staff and the hospitals that have been part of the state run insurance scheme that aims to support the poor.

The scheme – which has a great acceptance in the private sector – has made great progress in testing and treatment for Covid patients. In a month and a half from Covid-19 treatment was performed in the scheme, more than 2,000 people have been treated, while more than 3,000 people have been tested for the infectious disease.

A total of 1 million rupees treatments, 54% have been provided by the private hospitals. With your factor, the portability, the Ayushman Bharat scheme is seen as an important tool for the health care accessible in remote areas, at a time when the government is trying to handle an increase in Covid of infections due to the movement of migrant workers.
“This milestone of a million rupees treatments include more than 1 lakh treatments through the portability. This feature provides the opportunity to serve the migrant population and those living in under-served areas. We intend to raise the awareness and the return migrants on their eligibility outside of their states of origin,” Ayushman Bharat chief executive Indu Bhushan, said.
The plan aims to provide annual health insurance cover of rs 5 lakh to more than 10.74 million rupiah disadvantaged families. Around 21,565 public and private hospitals of the partners in the plan. The states of Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, and Rajasthan have emerged as the superior performance of states to provide greater number of treatments in the scheme.
While the majority of treatments is sought by virtue of the specialties such as orthopedics, cardiology, cardio-thoracic and vascular surgery, radiation oncology and urology, the upper tertiary procedures include single stent, internal fixation of hip fracture and rehabilitation, coronary bypass surgery, a double stent and total knee replacement.
The teams of the national health authority (NHA) – implementation agency for the plan – also are reaching out to the elderly (older than 60 years of age) and other high-risk category of beneficiaries (who recently received treatment) to check Covid-19 symptoms and if you need evidence through their call center managed by around 700 dedicated to the operators.
About 30 million calls have already been made to the beneficiaries of the program through this call center.