Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY SEHAT Yojana | UPSC

Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY SEHAT Yojana | UPSC

      HEADLINES:

PM to launch Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY SEHAT to extend coverage to all residents of J&K on 26 December

      WHY IN NEWS:

Union Home Minister and Lieutenant Governor of J&K will also be present on the occasion.

SYLLABUS COVERED: GS 3: Schemes

      LEARNING: 

For PRELIMS go through the aim and beneficiaries of this scheme.

For MAINS revise the scheme once – Ayushman Bharat yojana.

      ISSUE: 

AIM

• The scheme will ensure Universal Health Coverage .

FOCUS

• The primary focus is on providing financial risk protection and ensuring quality and affordable essential health services to all individuals and communities.

BENEFICIARIES

• The Scheme provides free of cost insurance cover to all the residents of the UT of J&K.

• It provides for operational extension of PM-JAY to 15 lakh (approx) additional families.
• The scheme will operate on insurance mode in convergence with PM-JAY.
• The benefits of the scheme will be portable across the country.
• The hospitals empanelled under PM-JAY scheme shall provide services under this scheme as well.

ACHIEVING UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE

• Universal Health Coverage (UHC) includes the full spectrum of essential, quality health services, from health promotion to prevention, treatment, rehabilitation.

• UHC protects people from the financial consequences of paying for health services out of their own pockets and reducing the risk that people will be pushed to poverty.

      IASbhai WINDUP: 

• The Ayushman Bharat program, with its two pillars – Health and Wellness Centres and Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojna – is envisaged to achieve UHC.

     SOURCES:  PIB | Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY SEHAT Yojana | UPSC 

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