Many Government that is non BJP Governments are not implementing the Ayushman Bharat health scheme announced by the center The PM is very unhappy with the state ignoring the scheme meant for the health of the poor and middle class citizens in general.
Targeting the Trinamool Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) over not implementing the Ayushman Bharat scheme in West Bengal and Delhi,Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the tendency to oppress ailing people for political interests is inhuman.
The Prime Minister Modi launched the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) health insurance scheme for senior citizens. Under this scheme, people aged above 70 years will get a health cover up to ₹ Rs 5 lakh annually.
Those already covered under the Ayushman Bharat scheme will get a top-up of ₹ 5 lakh crore. The scheme aims to benefit about 6 crore senior citizens.
“There was a time when people’s houses, lands, jewellery were sold for treatment. The soul of the poor trembled on hearing the cost of treatment for a serious disease. The helplessness of not being able to get treatment due to lack of money would shatter the poor.
I could not see my poor brothers and sisters in this helplessness.
That is why the ‘Ayushman Bharat’ scheme was born,” the Prime Minister said, adding that around 4 crore people in the country benefited from the scheme.
