{"id":54726,"date":"2024-06-27T07:45:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T07:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=54726"},"modified":"2024-06-27T07:45:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T07:45:04","slug":"president-announces-ayushman-bharat-health-scheme-for-free-treatment-above-age-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/27\/president-announces-ayushman-bharat-health-scheme-for-free-treatment-above-age-70\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;President Announces Ayushman Bharat Health Scheme for Free Treatment Above Age 70&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>New Delhi, June 27 :<\/strong> President Droupadi Murmu announced on Thursday that all citizens aged above 70 years will receive free healthcare treatment under the Ayushman Bharat health insurance scheme.<br>Addressing Parliament&#8217;s joint sitting, she highlighted the rapid establishment of 25,000 Jan Aushadhi Kendras nationwide.<br>Murmu underscored the scope of Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY), noting its coverage of free healthcare services for 55 crore beneficiaries.<br>She added, &#8220;Additionally, the government will extend this initiative further. Now, all elderly citizens above 70 years of age will also benefit from free treatment under the Ayushman Bharat Yojana.&#8221;<br>AB-PMJAY, recognized as the world&#8217;s largest publicly funded health insurance scheme, aims to provide Rs 5 lakh per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization to 12 crore families.<br>The guidelines for Hospital Empanelment and Management (HEM) under AB-PMJAY mandate State Health Agencies (SHAs) to empanel hospitals for the scheme&#8217;s implementation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, June 27 : President Droupadi Murmu announced on Thursday that all citizens aged above 70 years will receive free healthcare treatment under the Ayushman Bharat health insurance scheme.Addressing Parliament&#8217;s joint sitting, she highlighted the rapid establishment of 25,000 Jan Aushadhi Kendras nationwide.Murmu underscored the scope of Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,22],"tags":[4390,1032,73,1033],"class_list":{"0":"post-54726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"category-national","9":"tag-ayushman-bharat-health-scheme","10":"tag-earlypostdaily","11":"tag-india","12":"tag-latestnews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54728,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54726\/revisions\/54728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}