CHANDIGARH: After Kerala and Punjab, Chandigarh is leading in private hospitals empanelled under Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana ABPMJAY for universal health scheme coverage in the country. Out of 26 empanelled hospitals under universal health coverage, 18 are private hospitals, while the remaining are public hospitals. Across the country, 41.2% are private empanelled hospitals, while 58.8% are government hospitals.
In Punjab, out of 878 empanelled hospitals, 72% are private, quite like Kerala, where, out of 712 such hospitals, 73% are private. Latest figures indicate that more than 2 crore hospital admissions worth Rs 24k crore have been authorised under the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana. Also, around 23,000 hospitals have been empanelled under the scheme.
Recently, the National Health Authority accepted the proposal of the Chandigarh health department to use national food security data to map beneficiaries for Ayushman Bharat universal health coverage scheme. This would increase the number of beneficiaries in the city from the present 19,000 to one lakh.
Among UTs, Jammu and Kashmir have the highest number of hospitals under AB-PMJAY at 226, Delhi is placed third with 96 hospitals while Chandigarh is at the third place with 26 hospitals.
Ayushman Bharat was launched in Chandigarh on September 23, 2019.
Apart from the financial cover, the scheme focuses on prevention of diseases, mainly non-communicable ones like diabetes, hypertension and lifestyle-related conditions.
The scheme is aimed at reducing out-of-pocket expenditure. AB-PMJAY is a flagship scheme of Government of India, which provides health cover of Rs 5 lakh per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalisation to those below poverty line. The data was shared during a recent Rajya Sabha session.
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