Ayushman Bharat: out of reach

People in need of emergency healthcare face a hard time getting Ayushman cards issued. Lucknow: Salma, a resident of Lucknow, has made several attempts along with her husband to get their Ayushman Bharat card made. Yet, they haven’t seen any progress so far.   Salma, now a mother of a four-month-old daughter lives in a slum […]

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Few pvt hospitals under Arogya Karnataka

In emergencies, poor patients end up paying out of their pockets. By Jagriti Parakh With only 39 private hospitals in Bengaluru district empanelled under the Integrated Ayushman Bharat-Arogya Karnataka (ABAK) scheme, poor patients, who visit non-empanelled hospitals during emergencies, end up paying out of their pockets. Chetan Kumar, Monitoring and Evaluation Department, Suvarna Arogya Suraksha […]

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