Many irregularities and malpractices all through completely different states have surfaced within the execution of union authorities flagship Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojna (PM-JAY) scheme after the Comptroller and Auditor normal of India (CAG) has not too long ago revealed its audit report on it.
One of the most important revelations within the report is pertaining to the registration of beneficiaries of the scheme as round 7.5 lakhs beneficiaries have been discovered to be registered with a single cell quantity. Additionally, a number of beneficiaries have been additionally discovered to be registered with a single Aadhar card.
The report additionally claimed that an extra cost of round 57.53 have been made to the Empanelled Health Care Providers (EHCPs). Further a quantity of the EHCPc have neither fulfilled minimal standards of assist system and infrastructure nor conformed to the standard requirements and standards prescribed underneath the Scheme Guidelines.
The report additional claimed that Anti-Fraud cells in 4 states/UTs, Claim Review Committees in eight states/UTs and Mortality and Morbidity Review Committees in 11 states/UT weren’t fashioned. The report additionally asserted {that a} whole of 13 hospitals in Assam and Jharkhand had indulged in malpractices, nonetheless no motion was initiated in opposition to these hospitals.
Additionally, a quantity of malpractices resembling date of surgical procedure of sufferers talked about after their date of discharge, a number of admission of identical affected person on identical date, remedy of lifeless individuals and different irregularities resembling invalid/duplicate well being IDs, names, and unrealistic date of start and household sizes have surfaced within the CAG report.
Now after the disclosure of broad scale irregularities within the scheme, While the central authorities has stated that they’re taking assist from Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine studying to stop, detect and deter healthcare fraud, a viral video of the well being minister of Jharkhand has been doing the rounds on the web for his casual approach to the grave difficulty.
In the viral video the well being minister of Jharkhand, whereas replying to the queries of media individuals pertaining to broad scale irregularities and alleged corruption the minister will be heard saying that we’ll look into the matter. additional when one of the reporters once more quizzed him with the identical query that round 250 lifeless individuals have been proven to be handled within the scheme, the minister replied that ” do you assume that I’m a weak minister, I’ll act aggressively.
झारखंड में मुर्दों भी का इलाज हो जाता है।आयुष्मान योजना के तहत झारखंड के विभिन्न अस्पतालों में 250 मुर्दों का इलाज किया गया सीएजी के रिपोर्ट के मुताबिक 250 मुर्दों का इलाज आयुष्मान स्कीम के तहत करके 30 लाख से ज्यादा रुपयों का भुगतान भी अस्पतालों को कर दिया गया।स्वास्थ्य मंत्री… pic.twitter.com/ukd0X8FjW9
— Sohan singh (@sohansingh05) August 12, 2023
Further, Health Minister Banna Gupta will be heard saying that “Am I light weighted, I’m around 80 to 82 kg so I will act accordingly.” When confronted with the question that earlier the Jharkhand well being ministry had additionally transferred a physician who had already died the minister replied that “are you a close aide of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders.”
After the video went viral on the web, senior BJP chief Babulal Marandi whereas sharing a clip of the video tweeted “that when a reporter confronted Banna Gupta ji about the CAG report and irregularities found under his ministry the minister replied that are you a BJP man? This is the mentality of the corrupt minister of the corrupt government.”
पत्रकारों ने स्वास्थ्य मंत्री @BannaGupta76 जी से CAG की रिर्पोट पर पूछा कि आपके विभाग में ही गड़बड़ी क्यों पकड़ी जाती है।
उनका जवाब: आप BJP के आदमी हैं क्या?
भ्रष्ट सरकार के भ्रष्ट मंत्रियों की भ्रष्ट मानसिकता । pic.twitter.com/UHhBJRqN0f
— Babulal Marandi (@yourBabulal) August 12, 2023
It is to be famous that the CAG experiences have highlighted a quantity of irregularities and malpractices from EHCPs of Jharkhand, this contains remedy of lifeless individuals, remedy of identical individuals at separate hospitals on the identical date, remedy of sufferers greater than the mattress capability on a given date together with remedy with out having important equipments. Subsequently the state has been recognized as one of the worst performing states of the nation together with Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Kerala the place broad scale irregularities have been reported within the scheme.
