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Guwahati : Three patients have been admitted in Guwahati Medical College Hospital (GMCH) in Assam under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana-Ayushman Bharat (PMJAY-AB) scheme within 10 minutes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the mega healthcare programme today.
According to the reports, all three kidney disease patients have been admitted at the Nephrology department in the government run hospital.
52-year-old Lakshi Rani Barman hailing from lower Assam’s Nalbari district suffered in kidney disease problems has admitted in the government run hospital under the mega healthcare programme.
Apart from Renu Barman, two other kidney disease patients named Jyoti Prasad Bordoloi and Premananda Limbo have admitted at GMCH under the world’s largest government funded health care programme today.
The programme aims to make healthcare accessible and affordable, by providing a coverage of Rs 5 lakh to 10 crore economically backward families across the country.
The ambitious scheme, named the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, targets economically backward families from both rural and urban India. Eligible people can avail the benefits in government and listed private hospitals.
The beneficiaries are identified based on four deprivation categories. There is no cap on family size and age in the scheme, ensuring that nobody is left out. In case of hospitalisation, members of the beneficiary families do not need to pay anything under the scheme, provided one goes to a government or an empanelled private hospital.
Guwahati Medical College Hospital (GMCH) Superintendent Dr Ramen Talukdar said that, after launching the PMJAY, three patients have been admitted at GMCH and they are suffering kidney diseases.
“We have already started treatment of the patients and they will get benefit upto Rs 5 lakh under the programme. We will try our best to provide all facilities to the patients who will come to the hospital. We have also started a separate counter for the patients under PMJAY and a separate team has been engaged for it,” Dr Ramen Talukdar said.
On the other hand, Assam Chief Minister Sarbanadna Sonowal today rolled out Ayushman Bharat-National Health Protection Mission at a programme held at Khanapra Veterinary Playground in Guwahati.
Around 27 lakh families in Assam will be covered under the mega healthcare programme.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
