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There was a felt need in the State to provide financial protection to families
living below poverty line for the treatment of serious ailments such as cancer, kidney
failure, heart diseases etc. Available network of government hospitals do not have
the requisite pool of specialist doctors to meet the state wide requirement for such
treatment. Consequently poor patients have to go to private hospitals and incur huge
costs. This has led to their destitution and heavy indebtedness. n many cases,
patients die in harness unable to access medical treatment which is beyond their
means. Mounting medical expenses is identified as one of the causes leading to
pauperization of the farming community.
Aarogyasri Health Care Trust was therefore set up to implement a Community
Health nsurance Scheme named Aarogyasri (Aarogyasri-I to begin within three
districts of Mahboobnagar, Ananthapur, Srikakulam from 01-04-07. While formulating
the scheme, experience gained in other States of similar schemes viz. Yashaswini of
Karnataka, Karuna of Tamilnadu, Universal Health nsurance Scheme of Govt. of
ndia was carefully studied. The scheme has since been extended to the entire State
with some modifications in a phased manner. Trust also established a network of
hospitals, fixed the diagnostic and treatment protocol to keep the cost of
administering the scheme low. Government and private hospitals fulfilling minimum
qualifications in terms of availability of inpatient medical beds, laboratory,
equipments, operation theatres etc. and a track record in the treatment of specified
diseases are enlisted for providing treatment under the scheme. Premium under the
scheme is fully borne by the Government.
RoIe of ICT
the total patients who require surgical treatment 10% require surgical interventions
listed in the scheme. n addition, there is enormous pre-existing load in the state for
which estimation is not available.
!R$ONAL $&ARY:
- Date of irth : 14 JuIy 1975
- NationaIity : Indian
- aritaI $tatus : arried
!ROF$$IONAL $&ARY:
2000 2002 Manager, National Bank for Agriculture & Rural Development,
Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
2002 2003 ndian Revenue Service
2003 2005 Asst. Commissioner (Customs & Central Excise
Assistant Collector, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
ndian Administrative Service
2005 2007 Sub Collector, Madanapally, Chittoor, AP
2007 February
till date
CEO, Aarogyasri Health Care Trust, Hyderabad, AP