Ayushman Bharat
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Request Rejected. Official Website Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana. Recent media reports, including ones in this newspaper, have raised concerns that Ayushman Bharat promotes secondary and tertiary care at the cost of primary care.
These reports attribute these concerns to Amartaya Sen’s recent comments on the scheme, which may have been taken out of context. Sen’s views on the need to strengthen primary care might have been wrongly construed as his disapproval of Ayushman Bharat. Other reports suggest that the scheme, at best, targets a narrow set of healthcare issues and, at worst, benefits only a few rich individuals. Sen’s reported comments and other concerns can be deconstructed as: One, Ayushman Bharat as a solution is not consistent with the problem — in other words, the scheme is a giant leap in the wrong direction.
Two, primary healthcare has been historically neglected and the resources spent on Ayushman Bharat can instead be spent on strengthening primary healthcare. Ayushman Bharat has two legs. Official Website Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana. A healthy India is a wealthy India.
For an emerging economic superpower, health of its people is critical for economic productivity. Ayushman Bharat, which recently completed a year of existence, was conceptualised as an insurance based, healthcare delivery model that dovetails both preventive and curative healthcare at a coverage of Rs 5,00,000 per family per year. Whilst preventive care is to be delivered through “health and wellness centres” that provide comprehensive primary care, curative intervention is sought to be addressed by leveraging existing public and private hospital infrastructure and human resources in the country. Universal health coverage (UHC) was launched via a fee for service model where government and empanelled private sector hospitals provide an opportunity to leverage a potential universe of general and ICU beds. With India’s economic development, the burden of disease has shifted significantly from acute to chronic care. Official Website Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana.
Exactly one year ago, the government of India announced the arrival of the landmark Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojna (PM-JAY), or Ayushman Bharat, as it has come to be known.
The plan was to provide free healthcare to the most economically poor 50 crore Indians, who otherwise would have no access to quality care. The idea was simple and to be executed in two phases. The first, 'wellness' part aims to keep these 500 million out of the hospitals by starting 1.5 lakh wellness centres where basic healthcare is provided using advanced technologies like telemedicine, and preventive care in the true sense is promoted through the practice of Yoga and naturopathy. The second, 'curative', part dealt with providing insurance coverage of Rs 5 lakh for in-patient care at both public and private hospitals.
Then came the execution and as was expected, there were challenges. Official Website Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana. Sixteen years ago, when there was drought in Karnataka, farmers lost the capacity to buy healthcare.
I was able to convince the state government to launch a micro health insurance scheme through cooperative societies with a premium of Rs 5 per month per person. The government was kind enough to agree to be the reinsurer. Four hundred hospitals across the state agreed to treat these patients. This is how the Yeshasvini micro health insurance scheme was born. Official Website Ayusham Bharat Yojana. More than half a crore treatments have been availed by poor and vulnerable Indians through Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY), the flagship scheme of the Government of India in its first one year of operation.
PM-JAY is the world’s largest fully Government funded health insurance, which was launched by Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on September 23, 2018. It provides a cover of up to Rs. 5 lakhs per family per year, for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization to over 10.74 crore vulnerable entitled families (more than 50 crore beneficiaries). Official Website Ayusham Bharat Yojana. The health and wellness centres (HWCs) under the Ayushman Bharat scheme have the potential to help achieve the Universal Health Coverage goal, but inadequate infrastructure and an insufficiently skilled workforce remain major roadblocks.
A new model needs to be developed to manage population health efficiently through both the Ayushman Bharat components, the HWCs and Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY). The vision for a distress-free and comprehensive wellness system was converted into action on a mission mode last year. Close to 20,000 HWCs are delivering comprehensive primary health care free of cost, and providing universal prevention, promotion, and ambulatory care at the community-level. Their number is projected to reach at least 1.5 lakh by 2022.
Diagnostics plays a critical role in the prevention and treatment of diseases. The public-private partnership (PPP) model has been adopted in different states, with varying results. Official Website Ayusham Bharat Yojana. The dream of providing universal health coverage (UHC) has never been as close to reality as it is now.
As we mark the UHC Day, let us acknowledge that India needs UHC. The World Health Organization defines UHC as ensuring that all people have access to needed health services (preventive, curative, palliative and rehabilitative) of sufficient quality to be effective, while also ensuring that the use of these services does not expose the user to financial hardship. The UHC does not necessarily mean free health services, but ensuring access to affordable health services of adequate quality. People should not be exposed to catastrophic health expenditures.
Ideally, health care costs should not be paid for out-of-pocket by users at the time of seeking services, but through a prepayment mechanism or tax revenues. Contrary to this vision, about 60 million Indians fall into poverty annually due to expenditure on health. However, this may change soon. Official Website Ayusham Bharat Yojana.
There is a large gap in the use of public services in the country.
The “2018 Gender Gap Index” of the World Economic Forum and its sub-index, “Health and Survival” — India ranks 108 in the overall index and 147th out of 149 in the sub-index — shine a light on this challenge. Girl children face discrimination even before they are born and continue to experience bias during their life, including in the provision of nutrition and use of health services. Faced with limited resources, families, in general, prioritise the healthcare, nutrition and other needs of men at the cost of women. Some cultural factors, such as the reluctance of women in some regions to consult male doctors, also constrain their access to healthcare services.
The National Family Health Survey (4th round) shows that the main reasons women do not seek healthcare services are because these services are unaffordable, they are not easily available and there aren’t enough women healthcare providers. Official Website Ayusham Bharat Yojana. There is potential for private care providers, innovators and start-ups to be partners in the Ayushman Bharat scheme It has been close to 18 months since the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, launched the country-wide implementation of Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY), or the national health protection scheme; the initial momentum has been very encouraging.
The scheme is currently being implemented in 32 of 36 States and Union Territories. It has provided 84 lakh free treatments to poor and vulnerable patients for secondary and tertiary ailments at 22,000 empanelled hospitals, countrywide. Under PM-JAY, there is one free treatment every three seconds and two beneficiaries verified every second. Official Website Ayusham Bharat Yojana. The State cannot fight the pandemic alone.
It needs help on testing, treatment, PPEs, and a lot more Countries across the development spectrum are grappling with an unprecedented situation in which a seemingly innocuous viral illness, the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), has spiralled into a global pandemic in less than 90 days. It has infected more than 1.7 million people in more than 200 countries, claimed over 100,000 lives, and brought most of the world to a standstill. In India, the authorities have responded decisively with a strong whole-of-government approach. Official Website Ayusham Bharat Yojana. The fight against COVID-19 is not a race to a hilltop. It involves the continuous management of an evolving public health crisis that threatens to spawn economic and social crises. The country — indeed the world at large — is facing the century’s biggest crisis. Countries across the development spectrum are grappling with an unprecedented situation in which a viral illness, COVID-19, has spiralled into a global pandemic in less than 90 days, bringing most of the world to a standstill.
Official Website Ayusham Bharat Yojana. Lessons learnt from the SARS epidemic have helped shaped East Asian countries’ response to the Covid-19 outbreak. At the height of the SARS crisis that hit East Asia in 2003, the Health Minister of Vietnam, Madame Tran Thi Trung Chien, told me, “Mr Indu, we can catch crabs only during low tide.” Vietnam being largely a coastal country, she had very cogently contextualised Churchill’s famous quote, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Official Website Ayusham Bharat Yojana. The aim of Ayushman Bharat is to ensure the achievement of universal health coverage in India. On May 20, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that every Indian should be proud that Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) has crossed one crore treatments, and has had a positive impact on many lives.
The poor and vulnerable beneficiaries of PM-JAY have been from both urban and rural locations in India. Official Website Ayusham Bharat Yojana. State Wise List of De-Empanelled Hospitals under AB PM-JAY. Chief Executive Officer A full time Chief Executive Officer (CEO), in the rank of Secretary to the Government of India, is appointed by Central Government at NHA.
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