In Haryana's Karnal, girl child named Karishma born with the help of Modicare scheme

Two days after launch, Ayushman Bharat has its first baby, a girl named Karishma who was born at Kalpana Chawla Hospital in Haryana's Karnal.

"First claim raised under #AyushmanBharat. A baby girl is born through caesarean section at Kalpana Chawla Hospital in Haryana. Claim of RS 9000 paid to the hospital by Ayushman Bharat- Haryana. @AyushmanNHA welcomes the young angel! @cmohry," National Health Agency tweeted on Saturday.

First claim raised under #AyushmanBharat. A baby girl is born through caesarean section at Kalpana Chawla Hospital in Haryana. Claim of RS 9000 paid to the hospital by Ayushman Bharat- Haryana. @AyushmanNHA welcomes the young angel! @cmohry pic.twitter.com/goP5Q3VJWQ

— National Health Agency (NHA) (@AyushmanNHA) September 1, 2018

The CEO of Ayushman Bharat Indu Bhushan even told the Indian Express that it was a great omen that the child born was a girl.

Three days ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a video-conferencing with representatives of several states and also reviewed the progress made towards the rollout of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, under Ayushman Bharat. The conferencing was held through PRAGATI - the ICT-based, multi-modal platform for Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation, initiated by the central government.

Modi had last year announced to take steps to rein in healthcare costs. In 2017, the government had cut prices of life-saving coronary stents by up to 85 per cent by capping them at Rs 7,260 for the bare metal ones and Rs 29,600 for the drug-eluting variety. The government, soon after, slashed the prices of knee implants by between 59 per cent and 69 per cent using a special provision in the drug pricing law that enables it to intervene in "extraordinary circumstances" in public interest.

Ayushman Bharat, also refered to as 'Modicare', is the national healthcare policy launched by the Government of India in February this year. The ambitious healthcare policy promises to cover over 10 crore poor and vulnerable families (approximately 50 crore beneficiaries) providing coverage up to Rs 5 lakh per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalisation.

Benefits of the scheme are portable across the country and a beneficiary covered under the scheme will be allowed to take cashless benefits from any public/private empanelled hospitals across the country The scheme is entitlement based, with the entitlement decided on the basis of deprivation criteria in the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) database. The beneficiaries can avail the facilities in both public as well asempanelled private healthcare centres.

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