The Rajasthan Government has reduced out of pocket medical expenses through the Bhamashah Scheme which has been enabling poor and vulnerable people to avail best medical facilities. Since the inception of BSBY, we have booked packages worth more than Rs 1,800 crores, says Ashish Modi, Joint CEO, RSHAA (Rajasthan State Health Assurance Agency), in conversation with Sudheer Goutham of Elets News Network (ENN).
Q You are running BSBY (Bhamashah Swasthya Bima Yojana) last few years. Kindly elaborate the scheme.
The Rajasthan Government had started this scheme on 13th December, 2015 and since then, the State has been running it successfully. The first phase of BSBY continued for two years till 12th December 2017. After that, many disease packages were revised based on our experience of implementation of BSBY and based on the changing needs of the people. The second phase of implementation of BSBY started from 13th December 2017 and it shall continue till 12th December 2019.
In the current phase of BSBY, we are having 1401 different diseases packages which cover 21 different specialties. As on today, We have 1418 empanelled hospitals. Out of these, we have 899 private empanelled hospitals across Rajasthan and 519 government hospitals, right from the medical college to the CHC (Community health centre) level. Since the inception of BSBY, we have booked packages worth more than Rs 1,800 crores in the State of Rajasthan. Out of 1401 packages, 778 are secondary and 623 falls into the category of tertiary packages. Currently, we have packages for critical illnesses as well like kidney transplant, cardiac surgery, cancer treatment etc
Q How this scheme is benefitting newborns and pregnant women?
There are many gynecological procedures related packages for pregnant women and neonatal care packages for the newborn children in the scheme. There is a comprehensive package for antenatal checkup and for delivery caesarean section. We have been successfully dealing with the complications in cases of complicated pregnancy like caesarean section, preeclampsia and asphyxia within the newborn babies with the help of our extensive network of government as well as private empanelled hospitals across the length and breadth of Rajasthan.
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