Services under Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi: MOS health informs Parliament
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New Delhi: Recently, through a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha, Minister of state ( independent charge) Smt Anupriya Patel has informed about the Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi.
The scheme Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi (RAN) is under implementation in the country. The details of scheme and salient features are given below:
An illustrative list of categories of treatment to be provided from the Fund is given below:
An illustrative list of categories of treatment to be provided from the fund is as follows :
1.Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery:
1. Pacemakers
2. CRT/Biventricular pacemaker
3. Automatic Implantable Cardioverter defibrillator (AICD)
4. Combo devices
5. Diagnostic Cardiac Catheterization including Coronary Angiography
The scheme Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi (RAN) is under implementation in the country. The details of scheme and salient features are given below:
- The Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi (RAN) has been set up vide Resolution No. F-7-2/96-Fin-II dated 13/1/1997 and registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, as a Society. The RAN was set up to provide financial assistance to patients, living below poverty line and who are suffering from major life threatening diseases, to receive medical treatment at any of the super speciality Hospitals/Institutes or other Government hospitals. The financial assistance to such patients is released in the form of ‘one-time grant’, which is released to the Medical Superintendent of the Hospital in which the treatment has been/is being received.
- Under RAN Revolving Funds have been set up in 13 Central Government Hospitals/Institutions located all over India for providing financial assistance for treatment up to Rs. 2 lakh. In addition financial assistance is provided for individual cases referred by Government hospitals/institutions, which do not have a Revolving Fund and for cases referred by 13 Government hospitals/institutions with Revolving Funds for assistance exceeding Rs. 2 lakh.
An illustrative list of categories of treatment to be provided from the Fund is given below:
An illustrative list of categories of treatment to be provided from the fund is as follows :
1.Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery:
1. Pacemakers
2. CRT/Biventricular pacemaker
3. Automatic Implantable Cardioverter defibrillator (AICD)
4. Combo devices
5. Diagnostic Cardiac Catheterization including Coronary Angiography
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