Facilities

This Yojana supports the poor human to get the good medical treatment. Many facilities are available from the regulations and rules of this yojana.

These facilities given through the below points:

• For set up of AAIMS institutions total bed strength of the hospitals are amazingly increased. Nine hundred sixty beds are accessible in special department.
• Some beds are available for ICU; some beds are reserved for physical medicine and rehabilitation. PMR and AYUSH facilities are accessible in AAIMS institution.
• Apart from these various cabin will set up for specialization. Forensic medicine, community medicine, Pharmacology, physiology, Anatomy and Biochemistry are found in department wise, as a result individuals can easily go to take for special treatment.

Why in news?

• The Union Cabinet has accepted the PMSSN as a single non-lap sable reserve fund for Health from the profits of Health and Education Cess.
• The begin a course of action of Health and Education Cess are levied under Section 136-b of Finance Act, 2007.
• In the 2018 Budget, the Central government while presenting Ayushman Bharat Scheme, also indicated replacement of managing 3% Education Cess by 4% Health and Education Cess.
• One of the major profits of PMSSN will be good-quality access to affordable and universal health care

Background

• Importance of health:
  • Health is essential for better developmental outcomes.
  • From an economic standpoint, better nutrition (and health) improves productivity and lessen losses due to early retirement, premature death, and prolonged disability.
    • For example, one extra year of population life expectancy increases GDP per capita by 4%.
• Health outcomes depend significantly on public spending on health.

About Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Nidhi (PMSSN)

• It is a non-lap sable(funds allocated to certain schemes of the government) reserve fund for Health in the Public Account
• Begin a course of action of share of health in the Health and Education Cess will be credited into Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Nidhi.
• Rise into the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Nidhi will be used for the flagship plans of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare namely:
  • Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya scheme (AB-PMJAY)
  • Health and Wellness Centre- Ayushman Bharat
  • National Health Mission
  • Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana
• Emergency and disaster responses and preparedness during health emergencies
• Any future plan/programme that targets to acquire progression towards SDGs and the targets start out in the NHP 2017.
• Administration of the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Nidhi is entrusted to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW).
• In any financial year, the expenditure on such yojana of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) would be initially sustain from the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Nidhi and thereafter, from Gross Budgetary Support (GBS).

Benefits of the PMSSN

• Enhance access to affordable and universal health care through accessibility of earmarked resources.
• To certain that the amount does not failure at the end of the financial year.

Present Situation of Health Sector

• Our nation health infrastructure came under considerable pressure in 2020, with 11 million coronavirus cases and perhaps over a million wanted hospitalization.
• Our nation presently has one doctor over the population of 1,445 against the WHO norm of 1:1000.
• Our country take up 1.8% of its GDP on health in FY 2020-21 and 1-1.5% in the earlier years.
• As comparison with the OECD nation’s average of 7.6% and other BRICS nation’s average of 3.6% on their health sector, this is much low.
• As a result, our nation is among the top countries with the high up Out Of Pocket Expenditure (OOPE).
• As per to estimates, out of pocket expenses in healthcare in the country hang nearby to 62%, nearly thrice the global average of 18%.

Healthcare sector Budget 2021  

• Mission COVID Suraksha has been set in motion to encourage the testing and development of native vaccine candidates.
• At least 92 countries have speak to our nation for a Corona vaccine, thus strengthening the nation’s credentials as the vaccine hub of the globe.
• Production-Linked Incentive yojana have been declared to improve domestic manufacture of medical and pharmaceuticals devices.
• Further, to certain food and nutrition security for the beggar and the risk during the Coronavirus crisis, the Government of India set in motion the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package for offering free food grains to 800 million beneficiaries.  (PMSSN)
• To ease access to subsidized grains across the nation, the ‘One Nation One Ration Card’ plan has been authorize in 32 States/UT cover up 690 million beneficiaries.

Connected Challenges with Public Health Structure in India

• Overlapping Jurisdiction: There is no single authority in charger for public health that is legally empowered to issue rules and enforce abidance of the health standards.
• Lack of Primary Healthcare Services:The public primary health care structure in the nation is limited in scope. Even where there is a well-functioning public primary health center, only services connected to pregnancy care, limited childcare and certain services associated to national health plans are offered. This represents only 15% of all ill healthiness for which individuals seek care.
• Inadequate Funding: Expenditure on public health fund has been routinely little in our country (approximately 1.3% of GDP). As per OECD, our nation total out-of-pocket expenditure is around 2.3 % of GDP.

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