IMA demand of removing govt hospitals from Ayushman Bharat lacks vision: Dr Harsh Vardhan
New Delhi: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan rejected the IMA's demand of taking government hospitals out of the ambit of health insurance scheme Ayushman Bharat, saying the statement by the doctors' body lacks "any basis or vision".
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) said that government hospitals should be removed from the ambit of the Centre's ambitious Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojna (AB-PMJAY) as services there are already free and if the government wants to fund public health establishments, they should do it directly.
"They need to have access to quality healthcare whether provided by the government or the private sector. It is the government hospitals which provide healthcare services in the remotest areas of the country which have no private hospitals. Even the new medical colleges will be set up in the aspirational districts," the minister said.
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