Bandipora, January 01: District Development Commissioner Bandipora Dr Owais Ahmad Friday chaired a meeting to review the implementation of Government’s flagship Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan ArogyaYojana (AB-PMJAY) SEHAT in Bandipora district.
The meeting was attended by Chief Medical Officer Dr Bashir Ahmad, Joint Director Planning Imtiyaz Ahmad, Assistant Director FCS&CA Bilal Ahmad, Medical Officer Dr Ishfaq Ahmad, representatives of CSCs and other senior officers of the district.
The meeting was informed that 52 CSCs are functional across the district wherein people register themselves for availing benefits under the scheme and that so far more than 20000 registrations have been done.
On the occasion Deputy Commissioner called for increasing the registration facilities apart from already existing 52 CSCs centres with special counters at District Hospital Bandipora, Mini-Secretariat Bandipora and CHC Hajin.
He also directed to launch a mass awareness campaign to create awareness among people for cent percent coverage under the scheme.
Dr Owais asked the officers of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs to provide attested copies of ration tickets to genuine and bonafide rationees for use as documentary proof; sensitize consumers about the scheme,The flagship scheme which stands for Social, Endeavour for Health and Telemedicine provides a health-cover of 5 lakh rupees per family per year. It allows portability of benefits across the country has no cap on family size and involves free and cashless treatment in empanelled hospital located across the country.
Any citizen can apply for the scheme which is linked to more than 23,000 public and private hospitals across India apart from those in J&K
On the occasion Dr Owais also directed CSCs to fix day wise targets for each centre to ensure speedy registration and asked them to report daily about the registrations.
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