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Haryana has announed that an amount of Rs 5,000 will be given as medical aid to the below poverty line (BPL) Covid patients on home isolation. The amount will be sent directly to their bank account. It would be mandatory to have the Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP) of the beneficiary Covid patients to avail this aid.

Under another initiative of the state government, Covid patients of the Haryana who were BPL and were not availing the facility under Ayushman Bharat Yojana would be given subsidy and the amount would be deducted from the bill at the time of the discharge of the patient. The state government had set an incentive amount of Rs 1,000 per patient per day to a maximum of Rs 7,000 for the patients in private hospitals authorised by the state government for the treatment of Covid, and this amount would be deposited in the bank account of the hospitals when the patient was discharged.

Ayushman Bharat Yojana

The programme is part of the Indian government's National Health Policy and  was launched in September 2018 . The govt has established the National Health Authority as an organization to administer the program. It is a centrally sponsored scheme and is jointly funded by both the central government and the states. By offering services to 50 crore (500 million) people it is the world's largest government sponsored healthcare program.

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• providing health coverage for 10 crores households or 50 crores Indians; 
• providing a cover of Rs 5 lakh per family per year for medical treatment in empaneled hospitals, both public and private;
• offering cashless payment and paperless recordkeeping through the hospital or doctor's office
• using criteria from the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 to determine eligibility for benefits
• no restriction on family size, age or gender; all previous medical conditions are covered under the scheme;
• it covers 3 days of pre-hospitalisation and 15 days of post-hospitalisation, including diagnostic care and expenses on medicines;
• the scheme is portable and a beneficiary can avail medical treatment at any PM-JAY empanelled hospital outside their state and anywhere in the country;
• providing access to free COVID-19 testing

By: Shahid Ali