About 36.16 crore Ayushman Playing cards have been created for beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY), mentioned the Union authorities on Tuesday.
“As per the PMJAY dashboard, as of December 12, 36.16 crore Ayushman Playing cards have been created for such beneficiaries.
Of those, 29.87 Crore playing cards have been created for the beneficiaries residing in rural areas,” the MoS mentioned Union Minister of State (MoS) for Well being and Household Welfare Prataprao Jadhav, in a written reply within the Rajya Sabha immediately.
Launched in 2018, PMJAY gives monetary safety to disadvantaged rural households. It additionally identifies occupational classes of city employees’ households.
The flagship scheme “affords a profit cowl of Rs 5,00,000 per household per 12 months (on a household floater foundation). Companies embody a variety of procedures masking all the prices associated to remedy, together with medication, provides, diagnostic providers, doctor’s charges, room fees, surgeon fees, OT and ICU fees, and so on,” Jadhav mentioned.
Additional, he additionally listed the achievements made below the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) — aimed to develop the spine essential to help the built-in digital well being infrastructure of the nation.
“ABDM intends to make healthcare extra clear, safe, inclusive, accessible, well timed supply, and most significantly citizen-centric,” Jadhav mentioned.
ABDM contains key registries supposed by constructing registries equivalent to Ayushman Bharat Well being Account (ABHA), healthcare skilled registry (HPR), well being facility registry (HFR), and drug registry.
Underneath the scheme, “a complete of greater than 71.16 Crore Ayushman Bharat Well being Account (ABHA) have been created, until December 10,” the MoS mentioned, including that “round 45.99 Crore well being information have been linked with ABHA”.
“Round 3.54 lakh well being amenities have been registered on the well being facility registry (HFR), and about 5.37 lakh healthcare professionals have been registered on the healthcare skilled registry (HPR),” he famous.
Jadhav additionally knowledgeable on vital targets achieved below the Nationwide Well being Coverage.“Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) diminished from 103 per 100,000 dwell births in 2017-2019 to 97 per 100,000 dwell births in 2018-20 (towards a goal of 100 by 12 months 2020),” the MoS mentioned.
“Toddler Mortality Fee diminished from 32 per 1,000 dwell births in 2018 to twenty-eight per 1000 dwell births in 2020 (towards a goal of 28 by the 12 months 2019) and Complete Fertility Fee is diminished from 2.2 in 2015-16 as per NFHS-4 to 2.0 in 2019-21 as per NFHS-5 (towards a goal of two.1 by 12 months 2025)”, he added.
Individually, Union Minister of State for Well being and Household Welfare Anupriya Patel knowledgeable that greater than 5.46 crore kids and 1.32 crore pregnant girls have been vaccinated in all phases of Mission Indradhanush carried out to this point.
“Mission Indradhanush is a particular catch-up vaccination marketing campaign below the Common Immunisation Programme, carried out in areas of low immunisation protection to vaccinate disregarded and dropped out kids and pregnant girls,” Patel mentioned, in a written reply within the Rajya Sabha immediately.
She knowledgeable that 11 varieties of vaccines are offered below the programme.
