PM Modi launches Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY SEHAT to extend coverage to all residents of Jammu & Kashmir

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has launched a scheme ‘Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY SEHAT’ via video-conferencing to extend health insurance coverage to all the residents of Jammu & Kashmir.
Under this scheme, the coverage of Ayushman Yojna will be extended to all the residents of Jammu & Kashmir.
Currently about 6 lakh families of the state are getting the benefit of Ayushman Bharat Scheme.
With the SEHAT Scheme, all 21 lakh families will get the benefit of free treatment up to Rs 5 lakh medical expense, on the basis of Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011.
Apart from this, the treatment under the new scheme will not be limited to government and private hospitals in Jammu and Kashmir only, rather, the treatment can be availed from thousands of hospitals empanelled under this scheme in the country.