Port Blair, Jan. 8: 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 the year 2018. The scheme has successfully completed 4 years of its implementation on 23rd September, 2022.

Ayushman Bharat-PMJAY aims to provide a cashless treatment worth Rs 5 lakh per family per year against secondary and tertiary hospitalization care. Presently, 12,848 families (40,465 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 beneficiaries various IEC activities are conducted in this UT.

On 4th January, 2023 an AB-PMJAY card generation drive was organized by State Health Agency (SHA), A&N Islands at Gram Panchayat Office, Mithakhari. A total of 53 people have attended the camp, out of which, 15 new unregistered eligible beneficiaries were identified and cards were created for them. During the camp, the resource person from the State Health Agency also addressed the queries from the public pertaining to Ayushman Bharat – PMJAY scheme and also explained about the eligibility criteria to the public.