Ayushman Bharat Yojana
Context:
- To provide complete healthcare services for everyone, regardless of where they live or their economic situation, the government established the Ayushman Bharat project in 2018.
- Ayushman Bharat replaces segregated healthcare with a comprehensive, need-based strategy. Through the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) and health and wellness centres (HWCs), it addresses prevention, promotion, and care at the primary, intermediate, and tertiary levels.
Ayushman Bhav: To spread awareness of the programme:
- President Droupadi Murmu recently unveiled the Ayushman Bhav campaign.
- 55 lakh gramme panchayats and more than 6.45 lakh villages are the target audiences. In order to guarantee that no one is left behind in the pursuit of universal health coverage, it is created in accordance with the antyodaya principle.
- The campaign will engage in activities like sewa pakhwada, which would encompass blood donation campaigns, cleanliness campaigns (swachhata abhiyan), and organ donation drives, in order to assist this.
This campaign expands the scope of Ayushman Bharat by strengthening the foundation for the provision of healthcare services.
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- Ayushman Festival.
- By emphasising extensive coverage, cooperative awareness-building, and community-centered initiatives, these pillars improve service delivery.
- By increasing the distribution of Ayushman cards and better utilising Ayushman Bharat services, Ayushman Apke Dwar 3.0 will build on the success of its predecessors (1.0 and 2.0), assuring extensive coverage.
- Around 60 crore participants of the PM-JAY programme will receive Ayushman cards as part of the launch of the Ayushman-Apke Dwar initiative, which will be carried out extensively throughout the entire nation.
- Every qualified beneficiary consequently receives their Ayushman card, ensuring that everyone has access to low-cost healthcare services.
- The village health, sanitation, and nutrition committees (VHSNCs) would be the driving force behind Ayushman Sabhas, which will raise awareness of the different healthcare programmes and services offered in the nation.
- As a forum for citizens to learn about infectious and non-communicable diseases and express their complaints about healthcare services, Ayushman Sabhas would encourage social accountability of healthcare systems and serve as an example of the idea of “jan bhagidari se jan kalyan.”
- These events will involve handing out PM-JAY cards, showcasing empanelled hospitals, creating Ayushman Bharat Health Account IDs, providing screening services, and hosting talks to educate the public about various diseases with the participation of MPs and MLAs, PM-JAY recipients, Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Centres recipients, and champions of the fight against tuberculosis, among other participants to inspire the neighbourhood.
- Ayushman Melas will act as an effective forum to address a wide range of health issues, effectively reaching a big audience, and increasing the use of healthcare services in order to advance the Ayushman Bhav project.
- Ayushman Every week, melas would be hosted at 1.6 lakh HWCs in rural areas. They will also occur at community health centres, which are run on a block-by-block basis by medical colleges. This is essential to educating vulnerable and underserved groups about healthcare services.
Conclusion:
- The quest of comprehensive healthcare coverage has the vision for serving humanity in accordance with the ages-old knowledge revealed in this verse from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, which is situated within the framework of optimal healthcare delivery: Ma kashcid duhkha bhagbhavet, Sarve bhavantu sukhinah, Sarve santu niramayah, Sarve bhadrani pashyantu (May everyone enjoy good health and happiness. May everyone see what is good, and may no one endure any harm.)
- As a result, Ayushman Bhav represents the same dedication to providing healthcare. It promotes the likelihood of good health for each individual and the country as a whole.
