Port Blair, Nov. 13: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, GoI has launched the world’s largest health assurance program named Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) in 2018. The scheme has successfully completed 4 years of its implementation on 23rd September, 2022. Ayushman Bharat-PMJAY aims to provide cashless treatment worth Rs 5 lakh per family per year against secondary and tertiary hospitalization care. Presently, 12,691 families (40,206 members) have registered under the AB-PMJAY scheme in this UT and are entitled for cashless treatment at 28,000 empanelled public and private hospitals across the country. To create awareness among the general public and to identify the unregistered eligible AB – PMJAY beneficiary various IEC activities are conducted in this UT.
A Beneficiary Identification Camp was organized by State Health Agency (SHA), Port Blair at UHC Dairy Farm recently. In this camp, 8 new beneficiaries were identified and AB-PMJAY cards were created for them. During the camp, the resource persons from the State Health Agency also addressed the queries from the public pertaining to Ayushman Bharat – PMJAY scheme.
The State Health Agency (SHA), Port Blair also organized an awareness programme on Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) for the students and faculty of Govt. Teachers Training Institute, DIET Campus, Port Blair on 1st Nov., 2022. This session was aimed to create awareness about the benefits attached with the scheme. The students were exhorted to further inform and educate their parents and community about the scheme.