Village of 96 families gets Modicare rolling

GURUGRAM: The verification technique of folks eligible for Ayushman Bharat scheme, touted as the world’s largest well being coverage programme, used to be launched in Wazirpur village, situated at the city’s fringes off Pataudi street, on Monday.
Wazirpur is the primary Gurugram village the place the process is being done. Under the National Health Protection Scheme, popularly referred to as Modicare, an eligible family can be equipped a well being duvet of Rs. five lakh in line with 12 months without spending a dime remedy at hospitals.

Wazirpur village incorporates 3 small hamlets — Hamirpur, Mewka and Wazirpur — and has 96 families who will be the beneficiaries of the scheme in keeping with the Socio-economic and Caste Census (SECC) of 2011, which is getting used as the root to identify eligible folks. Modicare, according to the Centre, will duvet just about 40% of the rustic’s population.

State well being minister Anil Vij, while collaborating at an Ayushman Bharat Diwas event in Ambala on Monday, claimed that Haryana could be the primary state within the country that kicked off the initial paintings forward of rolling out the flagship medical scheme.

“Under this scheme, the well being division has invited tenders from insurance coverage firms. After selecting the insurance coverage companies, an inventory of panel of hospitals can be prepared. With the implementation of this scheme, economically weaker folks would not have to avail loans from moneylenders or banks for their remedy and surgeries,” mentioned Vij.

Deputy commissioner Vinay Pratap Singh mentioned the survey to identify beneficiaries used to be kicked off in rural areas on Monday. “Beneficiaries’ checklist is ready on foundation of the socio-economic caste census information, and gram sabhas have verified the checklist. The survey can be completed via May 10 and the information can be uploaded on nationwide portal after that,” Singh mentioned.


According to district building and panchayat officer Narender Saarwan, names of families throughout villages were read out in gram sabhas as a part of the verification workout on April 24, but some families didn’t reply, which necessitated a door-to-door survey for verification. “In Wazirpur itself, of 96 families known, 28 didn't reply. One family had already left the village, and shifted to a few other place. This will now be verified via auxiliary nurse midwifery (ANM), Asha and Anganwadi employees, who will conduct a door-to-door survey. An inventory in keeping with the SECC survey has already been handed out to them,” he mentioned. According to the district authorities, the choice of beneficiaries continues to be being tabulated.


Under the National Health Protection Scheme, the Centre estimates the price of insuring each family can be about Rs. 1,100. Citing a countrywide survey file, the Economic Survey had identified that people needed to spend an average Rs. 26,000 for remedy in line with hospitalised case in private facilities.


The state govt had performed a fortnight-long birthday celebration to create awareness on more than a few govt schemes in villages throughout Haryana. According to a district respectable, the Centre has followed two villages in Gurugram below Gram Swaraj Abhiyan. As many as 21,000 villages had been selected across the country for saturation of 7 central welfare schemes below this programme. In Gurugram, villages Zakopur and Loh Singhani in Sohna, which have a substantial SC/ST population, had been picked for imposing it.


Village of 96 families gets Modicare rolling Village of 96 families gets Modicare rolling Reviewed by Kailash on May 01, 2018 Rating: 5
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