Powering the health-care engine with innovation

Published on February 20, 2020

Powering the health-care engine with innovation

The Hindu, 19 Feb 2020, by Amitabh Kant and Indu Bhushan

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.

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