Team Herald
PANJIM: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious healthcare scheme ‘Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY)’ will be rolled out in Goa on Sunday at the hands of Governor Dr Mridula Sinha. Goa is one amongst those 27 States that will be launching the scheme on September 23. Over 15,000 hospitals, both public and private, across the country have expressed their willingness to be empanelled for the scheme which aims to provide 10.74-crore poor families health insurance.
In Goa, total of 36,539 families that include 21,371 from rural areas and 15,168 in urban are identified to be eligible for PMJAY. List of all these eligible population is available at respective Panchayats and Health Units under Directorate of health services. All the 447 procedures under Deen Dayal Swasthya Seva Yojana (DDSSY) will be also available at empanelled private hospitals under PMJAY at same rates prescribed under DDSSY. Accordingly final package list consist of 1509 and all these packages will be available under PMJAY at public hospitals. Sources said that State Health Agency has been created under National Health Mission/Goa State Health Society. Currently to start with, four Hospitals- Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMC), North and South Goa District Hospitals and Sub District Hospital, Ponda are been empanelled and are ready for launch. “Subsequently other Public hospitals as well as Private Hospitals will be registered and empanelled,” sources said. Arogya Mitra, first point of contact for the beneficiaries to avail any services at empanelled hospitals & will be available at DDSSY/PMJAY kiosk at these hospitals, have been identified and trained for all Empanelled Hospitals.
Union Minister of State for Aayush (IC) Sripad Naik, Minister for Public Work Department Ramkrishna Dhavlikar, Minister for Town and Country Planning Vijay Sardesai, Minister for Revenue Rohan Khaunte, Minister for Art and Culture Govind Gaunde, Minister for Health Vishwajeet Rane, Member of Parliament Narendra Sawaikar, Member of Rajyasabha Vinay Tendulkar and others will be present for the launch.
