NEW DELHI: The Health Ministry has prepared a detailed timeline to ensure completion of all steps to enable rolling out of the National Health Protection Mission anytime after July, while allocating around Rs 10,000 crore for the project.
Claiming that the project is the world’s largest Government-funded healthcare insurance programme, Union Health Minister J P Nadda today said his Ministry wants to complete sharing of the latest Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) data with states by April 30, testing of IT systems and hospital empanelment by July 31.
The Cabinet yesterday gave its nod for the launch of Ayushman Bharat – National Health Protection Mission (AB-NHPM), which will provide a coverage of Rs 5 lakh per family annually and benefit more than 10 crore families belonging to the poor and vulnerable sections of the society.
The centrally-sponsored scheme will target poor, deprived rural families and identified occupational category of urban workers’ families, 8.03 crore in rural and 2.33 crore in urban areas, as per the latest SECC data, and will cover around 50 crore people. (AGENCIES)
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