{"id":315686,"date":"2019-10-15T05:53:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T05:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315686"},"modified":"2019-10-15T05:53:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T05:53:10","slug":"over-50-lakh-citizens-benefited-under-ayushman-bharat-pm-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/over-50-lakh-citizens-benefited-under-ayushman-bharat-pm-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 50 lakh citizens benefited under Ayushman Bharat: PM Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-310353 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/modi-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/modi-10.jpg 528w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/modi-10-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday lauded the efforts made in the health sector as India achieved a major milestone of providing benefit to over 50 Lakh people under the Ayushman Bharat Scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAn important milestone in the journey of creating a healthy India! It would make every Indian proud that in a year, over 50 lakh citizens have benefited from free of cost treatment thanks to Ayushman Bharat. Apart from curing, this scheme is empowering several Indians,\u201d Modi said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Launched exactly a year ago in 2018, Ayushman Bharat is world\u2019s largest health insurance scheme, which aims to provide easy access to medical facilities to over ten crore poor people in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Under Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya (PM-JAY), 16,085 Hospitals have been empanelled and over 10 Crore e-Cards issued, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nearly17,150 Health &amp; Wellness Centers have become operational across the country under Ayushman Bharat, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday lauded the efforts made in the health sector as India achieved a major milestone of providing benefit to over 50 Lakh people under the Ayushman Bharat Scheme. \u201cAn important milestone in the journey of creating a healthy India! It would make every Indian proud that in a year, over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[5190,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315687,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315686\/revisions\/315687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}