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Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, September 23
Punjab Governor and UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore launched the Ayushman Bharat - National Health Protection Scheme, also called as Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY), in the city today.
About 24,000 households will be facilitated for getting their ‘Golden Records’ in a phased manner at the Ayushman Bharat office at the GMSH-16.
The Health Department, Chandigarh, is going to operationalise similar offices at the Civil Hospital in Sector 22, Sector 45 and Mani Majra for the comfort and easy access of the beneficiaries.
VP Singh Badnore told the audience that the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) would provide indoor health protection cover to poor and vulnerable families.
Beneficiaries under the PMJAY will be entitled to a medical cover of up to Rs 5 lakh per family per year.
Chandigarh MP Kirron Kher explained the benefits of the scheme by saying that the PMJAY will revolutionise healthcare in several ways.
A state health agency (SHA) under the Central Government has been set up in the city. The entire financial support will be provided by this agency, which will also be responsible for carrying out the scheme-related tasks, including registering beneficiaries, empanelling hospitals, verifying claims, disbursing verified claims, monitoring hospitals and checking frauds. Almost all government hospitals, including the PGIMER, will be empanelled.
Giving an update about health and wellness centres, it was informed that five dispensaries based at Dhanas, Mauli Jagran, Sector 38, Sector 20, Dadu Majra and five sub-centres at Dhanas, Behlana, Daria, Mauli, and Khuda Lahora villages have been upgraded into health and wellness centres in the first phase.
The upgraded centres will have a doctor, an auxiliary nurse midwife (ANM) or lady health visitor (LHV), and a pharmacist. The wellness centres will provide a package of 12 health services such as examining the reproductive child health (RCH), mother and child healthcare, eye and ENT (ear-nose-throat), oral healthcare, geriatric care, mental health, emergency services and yoga sessions also to ensure inculcation of healthy lifestyle amongst residents. Besides, free universal screening for common non-communicable disease (NCDs) will also be provided.
The Director Health Services informed the audience that Chandigarh is the first UT to initialise ‘AM I ELIGIBLE APP’ which will not only facilitate field workers in identifying and validating SECC data beneficiary, but would also act as a source from where the beneficiaries can themselves find out their own status. This facility will be available at all e-health panels in the city. The beneficiaries were handed over their e-cards by the Governor so that they can avail the benefits of this scheme.
MP seeks funds for road repair works
MP Kirron Kher on Sunday requested Punjab Governor and UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore to give funds to the Municipal Corporation for road works in Chandigarh. During a function at Tagore Theatre, she told the Governor in the presence of Mayor Davesh Moudgil that several roads in the city were crying for attention and potholed roads in various sectors of Chandigarh had been giving a harrowing time to commuters. Badnore assured help to Kher. It is pertinent to mention here that re-carpeting of roads has been pending due to fund crunch.
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