In J&K shutdown, PM’s health scheme grinds to halt, healthcare crisis grows
In J&K shutdown, PM’s health scheme grinds to halt, healthcare crisis grows Ayushman Bharat patients cannot access free services. The private and government hospitals we visited were half empty. MRI machines could not get software updates Current Affairs :- His eyes puffy, his spirits low as he lay on a clinic bed with cylinders coming up short on his body to a dialysis machine that decontaminated his harmed blood and sent it back, shawl seller Niyaz Wani mulled over how much longer he could bear the cost of his treatment. Till August 26, 2019, Wani’s dialysis was free of expense at the 50-bed Khyber Hospital, one of Srinagar’s driving private therapeutic foundations. He is a “brilliant card” holder under the leader’s key restorative costs repayment program, the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (national wellbeing insurance conspire), which- – until August 2019- – revealed the best use broadly in Jammu and Kashmir. Begun in September 2018, Ayushman Bh...