FM Jaitley, while delivering his Budget 2018 speech, announces two major schemes for health, one being health and wellness centres.
Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley announced two new measures under the government`s
Ayushman Bharat scheme, which are expected to take healthcare to greater
heights.
The two measures are as below:
1. Rs 1,200 crore will be allocated towards setting up health and
wellness centres in India, which will provide comprehensive healthcare,
maternal and child care, free drugs and diagnostics to the poor. The government
has also invited private sector contribution towards the same.
2. In a bid to increase the insurance cover for the poor, the
government, under the flagship National Health Protection Scheme announced that
a sum of upto Rs 5,00,000 will be provided to 10 crore poor families in India
per year, which is expected to reach around 50 crore beneficiaries, and will be
used for secondary and tertiary care hospitalisation.
Apart
from the above, FM Jaitley announced
that a sum of Rs 600 crore will be provided for nutritional support to
tuberculosis patients at a rate of Rs 500 per month. Additionally, 24 new
government medical colleges and hospitals will be set up by upgrading existing
district hospitals, thereby moving towards achieving universal health coverage.
These
measures, Jaitley believes, will be crucial to building an efficient, productive
New India, and would create additional jobs, especially for women. He further
claimed that schemes such as Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana and
Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana will now expand to cover the lower strata
of the society.
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