PM Modi launched the Ayushman Bharat scheme by way of video-conferencing.
New Delhi:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched the Ayushman Bharat scheme by way of video-conferencing to increase medical health insurance protection to all residents of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Prime Minister’s Office stated the scheme will guarantee common well being protection, and concentrate on offering monetary danger safety and guaranteeing high quality and reasonably priced important well being companies to all people and communities.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the Union Territory’s Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, additionally spoke on the event.
The scheme will present free-of-cost insurance coverage cowl to all residents of the UT of Jammu and Kashmir, the PMO stated, including that it’s going to prolong monetary cowl of as much as Rs 5 lakh per household on a floater foundation to all residents of the UT.
There is provision for operational extension of the “Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana” (PM-JAY) to roughly 15 lakh extra households, the PMO assertion stated, including that the scheme will function on insurance coverage mode in convergence with PM-JAY.
The advantages of the scheme might be transportable throughout the nation. The hospitals empanelled beneath the PM-JAY scheme shall present companies beneath this scheme as nicely, the PMO stated.