Ayushman Arogya Mandir

March 6, 2025

Delhi gets three Ayushman Arogya Mandirs, focusing on holistic patient care and disease prevention.

About Ayushman Arogya Mandir:

  • It is an attempt to move from a selective approach to health care to deliver a comprehensive range of services spanning preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative care.
  • It has two components which are complementary to each other.
    • Under its first component, 1,50,000 Ayushman Arogya Mandir will be created to deliver Comprehensive Primary Health Care, that is universal and free to users, with a focus on wellness and the delivery of an expanded range of services closer to the community.
    • The second component is the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) which provides health insurance coverage of Rs. 5 lakhs per year to over 10 crore poor and vulnerable families seeking secondary and tertiary care.
  • Ayushman Arogya Mandirs offer a wide array of services, including preventive, promotive, curative, rehabilitative, and palliative care.
  • As of January 31, 2025, 1,76,141 Ayushman Arogya Mandirs have been operationalised throughout India.

Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY:

  • Ayushman Bharat, a flagship scheme of the Government of India, was launched as recommended by the National Health Policy 2017, to achieve the vision of Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
  • It is the largest health assurance scheme in the world which aims at providing a health cover of 5 lakhs per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization to over 12 crores poor and vulnerable families (approximately 55 crore beneficiaries) that form the bottom 40% of the Indian population.

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