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3017 Hubs & 33,819 Spokes across the country. About 96.27 lakh Wellness Sessions, including
Yoga has been conducted at AB-HWCs as on 19.01.2022.

10.70 Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY): The second
component of Ayushman Bharat is PM-JAY; it is being implemented by the National Health
Authority (NHA) in partnership with state governments. The scheme provides a health cover
of ` 5 lakhs per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization to over 10.74
crores poor and vulnerable families in the bottom 40 percent of the Indian population. As on
19 January 2022, total of 17.5 crore Ayushman Cards have been issued under AB PM-JAY.
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A total of 2.73 crore authorized hospital admissions worth ` 30673 crore have been provided
through a network of approximately 25000 hospitals (approximately 10800 Private and 14300
Public hospitals). A massive information, education and communication drive “Aapke Dwar
Ayushman” was carried out in 2021 with the support of grassroot resources such as frontline
workers, healthcare workers and Panchayati Raj Institutions. This led to the identification and
verification of more than 4 crore people under the scheme.

10.71 PM-Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission (PM-ABHIM) is a mission
to develop the capacities of primary, secondary, and tertiary care health systems, strengthen
existing national institutions, and create new institutions, to cater to detection and cure of new
and emerging diseases. It is the largest pan-India scheme for public health infrastructure since
2005.

10.72 Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) is being implemented
to correct regional imbalances in the availability of affordable reliable tertiary healthcare
services and to augment facilities for quality medical education in the country. Under
PMSSY, construction of 22 new All India Institutes for Medical Science (AIIMS) and 75
Government Medical College up-gradation Projects has been approved and taken up for
implementation. Out of this, six (6) AIIMS at Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Jodhpur, Patna, Raipur
and Rishikesh are already fully functional. Another Sixteen (16) AIIMS under various
phases have been sanctioned.

10.73 Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), erstwhile National Digital Health
Mission (NDHM), announced on 27 September, 2021 with the aim to develop the backbone
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necessary to support the integrated digital health infrastructure of the country. It is to bridge
the existing gap amongst different stakeholders of the healthcare ecosystem through digital
highways. Services like the issue of Health ID, Healthcare Professionals Registry (HPR), Health
Facility Registry (HFR) and Health Records (PHR) have been initiated.

10.74 e-Sanjeevani: In wake of COVID-19 pandemic, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
upgraded eSanjeevani application to enable patient-to-doctor tele-consultation to ensure
continuum of care and facilitate health services to all citizens in the confine of their homes free
of cost. Telemedicine services have been rolled out in 36 States/UTs. To increase the outreach
of health services virtually, e-Sanjeevani OPD application has been integrated with 3.74 lakh
Common Service Centres (CSCs) thereby facilitating access to equitable health care in the
remotest areas of the country.