Cellphone numbers of beneficiaries of the National Health Protection Mission (NHPM) will be their identification for the scheme — they will be enough to get any family member of the beneficiary admitted in hospital under the scheme.Prime Minister is scheduled to inaugurate the first health and wellness centre when he goes to Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, on Ambedkar Jayanti (April 14), officially inaugurating Ayushman Bharat. In a bid to generate awareness about the programme, Ayushman Bharat Diwas will be observed on April 30.
While entitlement under NHPM will be based on data from Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC), the Health Ministry has tied up with Ministries of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj for verification of SECC data, identification of beneficiaries, and seeding of mobile numbers in the data, an official said.The need to link NHPM entitlement arose because Aadhaar is still…
