-The Indian Express Launched on September 23, PMJAY is the tertiary care arm of the NDA government’s flagship health programme AYUSHman Bharat. On the day Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee released the party’s manifesto with a focus on national issues such as demonetisation, Kashmir and GST, the state government returned the money received from the Centre for the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY), touted as...
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PM health scheme supports fraud: Congress
-The Telegraph The party dubbed false the government’s claim that over 10 crore families will get insurance cover up to Rs 5 lakh for a premium of only Rs 1,100 a year The Congress on Saturday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s much-hyped health scheme, AYUSHman Bharat, was built on the wrong foundation, allowed corporates and private hospitals to mint money and incentivised fraud. The party also dubbed false the government’s claim that...
More »With Health Ministry arms not on same page, who will give a helping hand to these cancer patients? -Maitri Porecha
-The Hindu Business Line Govt’s Wellness Centres have identified over 37,000 patients, but can they be treated under AYUSHman Bharat with their data not shared with NHA? The Union Health Ministry has identified thousands of new cancer patients, but is unable to treat them. Reason: Its own departments are not coordinating among themselves, and the patients are left high and dry. On February 21, the Ministry released startling statistics that it had identified...
More »Awareness of AYUSHman Bharat scheme still low in TN -Radhika Merwin
-The Hindu Business Line The letter issued by the Centre carrying the PMJAY scheme details has helped to a great extent Ahead of her visit to Billroth private hospital in Chennai for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), Girija had no clue to the Chief Minister’s Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme (CMCHIS), which had been running in the State for more than seven years. The treatment that carries a package cost of Rs. 92,500 was...
More »Amartya Sen: AYUSHman Bharat neglects primary healthcare, sector needs radical change
-The Indian Express He said the government needs pursue health and education efforts in order to build opportunity for and capabilities of people. Nobel laureate and economist Amartya Sen Wednesday said the idea that giving cash to people can help the economy grow misses out on the fact that real economy needs healthy and educated people who can drive growth. He said the government needs pursue health and education efforts in...
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