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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Odisha: BJD suspends 6 MLAs for cross-voting in RS polls
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Bhubaneswar (PTI): The Biju Janata Dal on Saturday suspended six of its MLAs for cross-voting during the recent election to four Rajya Sabha seats from Odisha.
The suspended legislators were Chakramani Kanhar of Baliguda seat, Naba Kishor Mallick of Jayadev constituency, Souvic Biswal of Choudwar-Cuttack, Subasini Jena of Basta, Ramakanta Bhoi of Tirtol and Devi Ranjan Tripathy of Banki, an order by party chief Naveen Patnaik showed.
The suspension decision was taken at the opposition party's Political Affairs Committee (PAC) meeting presided over by Patnaik.
The six MLAs were issued a show-cause notice on March 17.
They submitted their replies on Friday evening, and those were found not satisfactory, said the BJD's chief whip in the Assembly, Pramila Mallik.
The ruling BJP won two of the four Rajya Sabha seats while the opposition BJD and a saffron party-backed Independent candidate bagged one seat each in the biennial polls held last Monday.
While the total number of BJP legislators and Independent MLAs supporting the ruling party was 82 in the 147-member House, the saffron party candidates secured 93 first preference votes, which was 11 more than its strength in the Assembly.
Of these 11 votes, eight were of BJD MLAs and three of Congress legislators, an official had said.
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