Tested Corona positive and was admitted to a private hospital where she was unable to meet the medical expenses.

Kamala Devi,50, wife of a hawker in Sonepat, tested Corona positive and was admitted to a private hospital where she was unable to meet the medical expenses.At a doctor’s advice she got herself registered to Ayushman Bharat following which all her ….

• Haryana’s Ayushman Bharat Mission a boon for poor Covid patients  
• CM announces free treatment  BPL patients in all hospitals in the state
• Around 15.50 lakh families in Haryana getting yearly free of cost treatment upto  Rs 5 lakh
• So far an amount of Rs 5 crore spent on providing timely treatment to COVID-19 patients
• Chandigarh, May 21 – Kamala Devi,50, wife of a hawker in Sonepat, tested Corona positive and was admitted to a private hospital where she was unable to meet the medical expenses.At a doctor’s advice she got herself registered to Ayushman Bharat following which all her medical expenses were taken care of and she was cured in 15 days.
• In the horrid Covid times the Ayushman Bharat Haryana Health Protection Mission has proved to be a boon for thousands of such families who have been provided free of cost medical treatment..In all more than 11,000 patients have received  Covid treatment under the mission.
• The Haryana government has made a concerted effort to enroll as many families as possible.
• Chief Minister Manohar Lal has specifically directed the deputy commissioners and the health officers that special care be taken during the Covid times of people below poverty line who have been finding it difficult to make both ends meet in these trying times.
• The chief minister, however, going a step forward has also announced that all BPL families including those which somehow could not register themselves under the Ayushman Bharat would be provided free of cost medical treatment in any hospital in the state. The facility would not just be limited to the government hospitals but would cover private hospitals as well.
• “The mission of the government is that nobody should be deprived of medical aid due to the family’s poor financial condition,” said the chief minister.
• The state took a novel initiative by constituting  ‘Ayushman Bharat Haryana Health Protection Authority’ which  has so far spent an amount of Rs 4 crore on the COVID-19 testing of 10791 persons. Furthermore, an amount of more than one core has been spent on the treatment of 583 patients.
• Testing and Treatment of COVID-19 Pandemic is also included in the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana from April 4, 2020.  Since then, the Haryana government has spent an amount of Rs 5 crore on the treatment of COVID-19 patients covered under this scheme.
• In Haryana 15.50 lakh families are registered under the mission who are entitled to free medical treatment worth Rs five lakh annually.
• In all 593 hospitals in the state are empanelled of which 176 are the government hospitals and 417 are the private ones. So far these hospitals have claimed an amount of Rs 315 crore for the treatment of 2.59 lakh patients.  Out of these, a claim of Rs 263 crore has been paid by the government for the treatment of 2.33 lakh patients.
• Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana was launched in the country on August 15, 2018 and under  this, Haryana is the first state in the country which has paid the  medical claim raised under Ayushman Bharat.

Also See:

• The Central Government has approved financial assistance of Rs 20.67 crore for the fourth edition of Khelo India Games
• Sh. Manohar Lal said that “Mera Paani -Meri Virasat” Scheme will be linked to “Meri Fasal – Mera Byora”