Sri Vijaya Puram, Sept. 19: Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) and Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), the flagship schemes under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, GoI was launched on 23rd September, 2018 and 27th September, 2021 respectively.
This September will mark 6 years of AB-PMJAY and 3 years of ABDM. Since their launch, these schemes have won crores of hearts, lit lamps of happiness in crores of homes and saved out-of-pocket health expenditure for crores of households becoming the lifesaver for beneficiaries.
To commemorate the journey of AB-PMJAY and ABDM, Ayushman Pakhwada will be celebrated from 20th to 30th September, 2024 throughout the nation. This will include activities to create awareness and educate the people of these Islands about the scheme and benefits attached with it.
AB-PMJAY scheme was launched with an aim to provide cashless treatment worth Rs 5 lakh per family per year against secondary and tertiary hospitalization care. At present, 25,254 families (72,447 members) have registered under the AB-PMJAY scheme in this UT and are entitled for cashless treatment of Rs. 5 lakh. Till date, around 2,000 beneficiaries have been referred under the AB-PMJAY Scheme to empanelled hospitals at mainland from this UT.
Likewise, Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) was launched with an objective to create a national digital health ecosystem that supports universal health coverage in an efficient, accessible and secure manner.
The Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA) card generated under ABDM will help the patient to securely store and access their medical records (such as prescriptions, diagnostic reports and discharge summaries), and share them with health care providers to ensure appropriate treatment and follow-up. Currently, 4,43,065 ABHA have been generated in this UT.
The ABHA card uniquely identify person, authenticating them and threading their health records (only with the consent of the patient) across multiple systems and stakeholders.
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