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Budget 2019: Government Allocates ₹6,400 cr to Ayushman Bharat

February 04, 2019

Budget 2019: Government Allocates ₹6,400 cr to Ayushman Bharat
This Friday, Piyush Goyal announced that the national healthcare scheme Ayushman Bharat will receive ₹6,400 crores under the 2019 budget. He said that as many as 10 lakh patients have benefited from the scheme and saved ₹3,000 crores.

Ayushman Bharat aka Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) offers insurance cover of ₹5 lakhs to individual households and currently covers more than 50 crore financially-weak families under its ambit.

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