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HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTERS:
Health and Wellness Centers are considered the foundation of India’s healthcare system, as per National Health Policy, 2017.Under this, it has been planned to establish 1.5 lac health and wellness centers to bring health care system closer to people.These would be fully equipped so that comprehensive healthcare could be provided for non-communicable diseases, maternal health and child health along with free essential drugs and diagnostic mechanisms. Rs. 1200 crore have been allocated for this flagship program in the Union Union Budget 2018. The contribution from private sector is also invited in form of CSR ( corporate social responsibility) and participation by adoption of these centers by philanthropic institutions.

New health and wellness centers will have the following features:

-Services will not be only limited to pregnancy care, immunization and some communicable diseases which constitutes only less than 10% of morbidity. However, Health and Wellness Center would cater to more than 70% of all patients including non-communicable diseases and mental illnesses.

-The onus of the doctor /specialist would start from diagnosis to treatment plan for chronic illness till follow up care.

-Each health and wellness center would require at least three full time workers along with five community health workers, each of whom should be recruited locally.

-Center would be equipped with wide range of free medicines and diagnostics

On the occasion of Ambedkar Jayanti i.e. 14th April 2018, Prime Minister of India Mr. Narendra Modi inaugurated a Health and Wellness Center in Jangla, Bijapur district, Chhatisgarh to launch the Union Government’s ambitious Health Assurance Program – Ayushman Bharat.The Prime Minister said,”the Ayushman Bharat scheme will go a long way in ending social imbalance, and ensuring social justice in the country. In the first phase of this scheme, an effort would be made to bring about a sea change in primary healthcare. the sub centers and primary health centres at 1.5 lakh places in the country would now be developed as Health and Wellness Centers”.He sees this as a major step to build the New India by 2022 and addressed these Health and Wellness Centers as family doctors for the poor.

NATIONAL HEALTH PROTECTION SCHEME:
National Health Protection Scheme is the second flagship program under Ayushman Bharat. This scheme seeks to cover over 10 crore poor and vulnerable families which means a total of about 50 crore beneficiaries. The coverage of upto 5 lakh rupees per family per year would be provided for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization. This will be the world’s largest government funded health care program. Due to the large extent and scale of this program, on-going centrally sponsored schemes – Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana ( RSBY) and Senior Citizen Health Insurance Scheme (SCHIS) would be subsumed under this program.