Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann today made a bigstatement on Ayushman Bharat Scheme which was started by the Central government.
Bhagwant Maan has said that the amount that was due for PGI hasbeen paid and the treatment will start in the hospital soon. He said that bynext year he will make Mohalla clinics so efficient that Punjab will not feelthe need for Ayushman Scheme.
Bhagwant Mann said that the hospitals of Punjab will also beimproved in which everyone will be treated free of charge.
Bhagwant Mann said that only a few categories of people comeunder the Ayushman scheme who get benefits and only a few people get freetreatment.
The money was not paid to the PGI hospital under theAyushman scheme by the Punjab government, due to which the free treatment ofpatients hailing from Punjab was stopped in the PGI in the last few days.
At the same time,cases of fraud in the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Scheme have also come to thelight in Punjab and Haryana.
Under the Ayushman Bharat scheme, 26 percent of fraud hasbeen claimed in both the states of the entire country.
The situation is even worse in Punjab, where the scheme ismired in controversy. Due to this scheme, the state government has stopped thedues of about 250 crore rupees from private hospitals on complaints of abuse.
According to data collected by the Union Health Ministry,state health agencies in 17 states have detected 24,152 fraudulent claims, ofwhich 6,161 cases have come from Punjab and Haryana.
In Punjab, 682private hospitals and 245 government hospitals have been listed under thisscheme.
The ministry has warned that such kind of fraud will not betolerated under this scheme and if anyone does it, strict action will be takenagainst the same.