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600mn Beneficiaries Covered Since 2018: PM Narendra Modi on 8 Yrs of Ayushman Bharat

The scheme has funded 13.25 crore hospital admissions worth Rs 2.03 lakh crore, officials said, as it expanded cashless cover for poor and middle-class families.

  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Ayushman Bharat provides more than 60 crore beneficiaries with annual health coverage of Rs 5 lakh.
  • Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY was launched on September 23, 2018, to provide cashless hospitalisation for secondary and tertiary care.
  • Health Minister J. P. Nadda said the scheme created more than 48.54 crore Ayushman cards and helped over 13 crore people receive treatment.
  • Nadda said treatment worth more than Rs 2 lakh crore was provided through over 39,000 public and private hospitals.
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On Wednesday, as the Ayushman Bharat scheme completed eight years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that it has provided health coverage of up to ₹5 lakh to 600 million people in the country, making it the world's largest healthcare scheme. PM Modi extends best wishes Wishing all the beneficiaries of Ayushman Bharat, PM Modi wrote in a post on the social media platform 'X', "Eight years ago, Ayushman Bharat was launched with the vision of prov…

8 years of Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY: 12.69 crore hospitalization cases approved, treatments worth ₹1.92 lakh crore authorized. Learn how cashless health cover of up to ₹5 lakh is reducing the medical burden of millions of poor families, including the elderly aged 70+ and ASHA and Anganwadi workers.

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