Many Lives Changed with The PMJAY Scheme
On August 15, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India will end deprivation to quality and equitable health care by launching Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) to provide health assurance to more than 550 million people and on September 23, the scheme was rolled out.
Within six months of Cabinet approval to the rollout, 32 states and UTs joined the Ayushman Bharat movement, irrespective of their ideology, as a shining example of co-operative federalism. As of today, a month after the launch, more than 100,000 beneficiaries across regions, states and territories have been treated in more than 14,000 hospitalized hospitals, and more than ? 150 crore released to the hospitals against claims.