Over one crore people have availed treatment worth around Rs 13,412 crore for free in hospitals across the country under the Ayushman Bharat health insurance scheme since its launch in September 2018,...

The Covid-19 pandemic, which has presented challenges for several nations, could be an opportunity for India to speed up the health insurance scheme Ayushman Bharat, especially with a focus on primary...

Inactive hospitals and fewer patients’ admissions than expected have vexed a nationwide health scheme launched by the Centre a year ago to provide free hospital treatment to poor and vulnerable fami...

Private hospitals in the capital, who are starting to implement the national PM-JAY Ayushman Bharat scheme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday here, said it would help poor patients but...

Around 200 Trinamul activists led by MLA and Nadia chief Gourishankar Dutta on Saturday threatened to shut the Krishnagar head post office down unless the delivery of the Centre’s Ayushman Bharat sc...

Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday likened Narendra Modi’s decisions to those of “Mussolini and Hitler” while accusing the Prime Minister of “destroying” the country’s feder...

An alliance of doctors on Wednesday released a charter of demands for rational, ethical and universal healthcare to people in India and called on political parties to incorporate the charter into thei...

BJP parliamentarian Varun Gandhi, who stands virtually sidelined under the current dispensation, has come up with a book on rural India at a time his party is battling farm distress in the ongoing rou...

Economist Amartya Sen on Friday criticised the Centre’s Ayushman Bharat Yojana, saying it does not fulfil the requirements of primary healthcare and that the money could have been used better by imp...

CM Raghubar Das on Saturday brought Diwali cheer by laying foundation stones and inaugurating projects worth over Rs 300 crore in East Singhbhum in the run-up to the Assembly polls, and also empanelle...