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New Delhi: One of the first decisions anticipated as BJP President J.P. Nadda takes charge of the Union health ministry is the expansion of the Centres flagship health insurance scheme, Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY), to nearly 4.5 crore people aged over 70 years...
Expanding the scheme that provides a health cover of Rs 5 lakh per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalisation is part of the 100-day agenda prepared by the health ministry...
Sources in the ministry told ThePrint that the scheme currently covers roughly 1.5 crore people aged over 70 years based on the deprivation and occupational criteria of the Socio-Economic Caste Census 2011 (SECC 2011) for rural and urban areas, respectively...
Some other initiativesin the ministrys 100-day plan include the launch of a one-stop portal for hospitals to process claims among over 50 health insurance providers and the nationwide launch of the governments vaccine management platform, eVIN...
The eVIN platform, developed on the line of CoWIN, the linchpin of the health ministrys mega COVID-19 vaccination drive, will be integrated with the Universal ImmuniSation Programme (UIP) toenrol kids at birth, record all their vaccinations, and provide them with a vaccine certificate online...
