Public perception on Ayushman bharat scheme

Introduction
Ayushman Bharat Yojana or Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) or National Health
Protection Scheme is a centrally sponsored scheme launched in 2018. Ayushman Bharat-
National Health Protection Scheme, which will cover over 10 crore poor and vulnerable
families (approximately 50 crore beneficiaries) providing coverage up to 5 lakh rupees per
family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization. e. Indu Bhushan is the Chief
Executive Officer and Dr Dinesh Arora as the Deputy CEO of Ayushman Bharat Yojana. n.
Benefits of the scheme are portable across the country and a beneficiary covered under the
scheme will be allowed to take cashless benefits from any public or private empanelled
OBJECTIVES
• Designed to offer poor people with health care facilities.

• Improves health benefits to the people belonging to below poverty line.

• Aims at establishing health centers within approachable distance for poor people

METHODOLOGY

Primary data: Primary data is obtained from the respondents through questionnaire, direct interviews, and
observations.

Secondary data: Secondary data collected from books, journals and magazines, research report, internet.
Research gap
 FINDINGS
• The study reveals that 63.3 percentage of the respondents are between the age group of 18 – 25 and
10 percentage of the respondents are between the age group of 25 – 35 and 35 – 45.
• The study examines that 43.3 percentage of the respondent’s monthly income is above 35000 and
10 percentage of the respondent’s monthly income is below 10000.
• About 43.3 percentage of the respondents are below poverty line and 56.7 percentage of the
respondent’s are above poverty line.
• The study reveals that 50 percentage of the respondents have the health problems and the rest are
healthy.
• The research states 80 percentage of respondents agrees that private hospitals gives the better
services
• The study reveals 50 percentage of the respondents select government hospitals because of lesser
finance.
• About 50 percentage of the respondents has the perfect knowledge about ayushman bharat
scheme.
• The study examines that 43.3 percent of the respondents have Ayushman Bharath card and the rest
56.7 percentage of the respondents does not have card.
• About 40 percent of the respondents are aware how to apply for this scheme and the rest of the
 Suggestions
• Invest in training doctors, health economist, hospital managements etc.
• Public education and awareness needs to be increased through media about Ayushman Bharath
scheme.
• Giving good treatment in hospitals for the public.
• Providing better treatment in both public and private hospitals.
• Ensuring quality treatment of patients by prescribing and ensuring adherence to standard treatment
protocols.
• Giving perfect knowledge about the provisions and benefit of the scheme.
• Giving knowledge of using the e-card, especially in rural region.
• To identify each and every beneficiaries throughout India.
• Various stakeholders must interact politely during the process of availing the benefits.
• Government must provide the helpline number to each and every respondents, if people want any
sort of help from the government they can contact the helpline number.
• Patients must be given individual attention in the hospitals.
CONCLUSION
The AB-PMJAY offers a unique opportunity to improve the health of hundreds of millions of Indians
and eliminate a major source of poverty afflicting the nation. There are, however, substantial
challenges that need to be overcome to enable these benefits to be realised by the Indian population
and ensure that the scheme makes a sustainable contribution to the progress of India towards UHC.
UHC has become a key guiding target for health systems around the world under the Sustainable
Development Goals to improve the health of the global population and overcome the scourge of
medical-related impoverishment. The success of UHC is measured by the access of health services
across the population, the types of services that are available, and the financial protection offered to
the population. While there are obvious resource constraints in implementing AB-PMJAY, the
success—or otherwise—of the scheme in making progress across these three measures will also
depend on overcoming a number of existing and interrelated structural deficiencies of the Indian
system such as issues of public and private sector governance, stewardship, quality control, and
health system organisation. To do so will require careful monitoring of the implementation of the
program to track progress against key budgetary, service, and financial-protection measures and
guard against unintended consequences. In many cases, current arrangements in these areas can be
seen to be a product of vested interests and a system that is not designed to reward positive change.
Altering these incentives to promote universal and quality care for all Indians will require
widespread reform, intervention, and leadership across all levels of the Indian system. Thus, whilst