6 lakh people avail treatment under Ayushman Bharat in 90 days: Union Health Minister Nadda
New Delhi, Dec 21: In less than 90 days since its launch, more than six lakh people have availed treatment under the Ayushman Bharat - Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY), Union Health Minister J P Nadda said.
Launched on September 23 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Ranchi in Jharkhand, the scheme has provided secondary and tertiary care benefits worth over Rs 800 crore to beneficiaries across the country.
The scheme aims to provide a health cover of Rs 5 lakh per family annually to more than 10.74 crore poor families or 50 crore people for secondary and tertiary care hospitalisation through a network of empanelled health care providers.
In addition, around 30 lakh beneficiary e-cards have been generated facilitating access to quality healthcare under the scheme to three million poor people.
Currently more than 16,000 hospitals have been empanelled or are in the process of empanelment under PM-JAY. Out of these, 8,807 or 55 per cent are private hospitals.
"Dedicated to providing the best in class inpatient care for serious illnesses, PM-JAY is performing well so far, two-thirds of the total hospital admission amount of more than Rs 800 crore has been utilised towards tertiary care procedures or treatment for serious illnesses," Nadda said.
"Cardiology and cardiothoracic and vascular procedures such as angioplasty, coronary artery bypass graft and valve replacement are the top three packages of PM-JAY worth more than Rs 297 crore and account for 37 per cent of the total admission amount," he added.
Nearly 3,500 Common Service Centres (CSCs), a network of single-window service providers, run by village-level entrepreneurs (VLEs), that are a part of the government's rural outreach programme for delivery of digital services, have been engaged for verification of Ayushman Bharat beneficiaries through generation of PM-JAY e-cards across 13 states.
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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
