With more than 60 crore beneficiaries, it is the largest healthcare scheme in the world.
Key features
- Launched: 2018
- Aim: achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
- Type: Centrally Sponsored Scheme
- Implementation: National Health Authority (NHA) at central level and state health agencies at state level
- Components: Ayushman Arogya Mandir (AAM); Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY)
- AAM(Health and Wellness Centres): to deliver free and universal Comprehensive Primary Health Care
- PM-JAY: Largest health assurance scheme which provides a cover of ₹5 lakh per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization
- Coverage: Covers up to 3 days of pre-hospitalization and 15 days of post-hospitalization care across any empanelled public or private hospital
- Beneficiaries: Originally bottom 40% based on Socio-Economic Caste Census 2011.
- However it has been expanded to cover all senior citizens aged 70 and above and 37 lakh families of ASHA and Anganwadi workers
- Others: no restrictions on family size, age, or gender, cashless treatment,
Achievements
- Massive Beneficiary Reach: Ayushman Bharat has expanded to cover over 60 crore beneficiaries, with more than 48.54 crore Ayushman cards
- Strengthened Primary Health care: Ayushman Arogya Mandirs have recorded over 500 crore visits in line with Declaration of Alma-Ata
- Reducing Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure: It has been reduced to 43.4% (2022)
Challenges associated
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