Expanded Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) that would include all people aged 70 and above, irrespective of their socio-economic status and benefit an estimated six crore citizens in about 4.5 crore households will be rolled out from next month.
This was informed by Union Health Minister JP Nadda at a press conference held here on the first 100 days of the third Modi government.
Nadda also shared that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch an online vaccine management portal U-WIN, currently operational on a pilot basis. Nadda said that the portal has been developed to maintain a permanent digital record of vaccination and medicines of pregnant women as well as children from birth up to the age of 17.
The portal will allow self-registration by citizens using the U-WIN web-portal or the U-WIN citizen mobile application, automated SMS alerts, universal QR-based eVaccination Certificate and utility to create their Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA) ID for themselves and Child ABHA ID for their children. The portal is in 11 regional languages including Hindi, said Nadda.
The Minister also said that soon BHISHM Cubes, a portable and rapidly deployable modular medical facility intended to provide emergency lifesaving clinical care in event of disaster/public health emergencies will also be placed in medical institutions.
“BHISM cubes have the capacity to handle about 200 cases of diverse nature in emergency situations such as trauma, bleeding, burns, fractures, etc. In the 1st Phase, BHISHM Cubes will be placed in 25 AIIMS and Institutes of National Importance (INIs) for rapid deployment in the respective region in case of disaster / health emergencies. States may also deploy at strategic locations subsequently,” he said.
India has gifted four BHISHM Cubes to Ukraine during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the country recently, Nadda added.
About the usage of drone services, he said that fifteen AIIMS/INIs/NE institutions have been identified for drone services. Drone trials and training have been completed in 12 institutes. Nadda said that drones provide safe, accurate, reliable pickup and delivery of medicines, vaccines, blood, diagnostic specimens and other life-saving items to difficult-to-reach facilities.
The Union Minister also highlighted the introduction of the Food Import Rejection Alerts (FIRA), an online portal designed to notify the public and relevant food safety authorities about food import rejections at Indian borders and training of food street vendors by the FSSAI.
