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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched the Ayushman Bharat scheme by way of video-conferencing to extend health insurance coverage to all residents of Jammu and Kashmir. The Prime Minister’s Office stated the scheme will guarantee common health coverage, and give attention to offering monetary danger safety and guaranteeing high quality and inexpensive important health providers 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-value insurance cowl to all residents of the UT of Jammu and Kashmir, the PMO stated, including that it’ll extend monetary cowl of up to 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 mode in convergence with PM-JAY.
The advantages of the scheme will probably be moveable throughout the nation. The hospitals empanelled below the PM-JAY scheme shall present providers below this scheme as nicely, the PMO stated.
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