Ayushman Arogya Mandir

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Ayushman Bharat (AB) is an attempt to move from sectoral and segmented approach of healthservice delivery to a comprehensive range of health care service.
Ayushman Bharat aims toundertake path breaking interventions to holistically address health (covering prevention, promotionand ambulatory care), at primary, secondary and tertiary level.
Ayushman Bharat adopts acontinuum of care approach, comprising of two inter-related components.
The first componentpertains to creation of 1,50,000 Ayushman Arogya Mandir which will bring health care closer to thehomes of the people.
These centres will provide Comprehensive Primary Health Care (CPHC),covering both maternal and child health services and non-communicable diseases, including freeessential drugs and diagnostic services.
The second component is the Pradhan Mantri Jan ArogyaYojana (PM-JAY) which provides health protection cover to poor and vulnerable families for seekingsecondary and tertiary care.The National Health Policy, 2017 recommended strengthening the delivery of primary health care,through establishment of “Ayushman Arogya Mandir” as the platform to deliver ComprehensivePrimary Health Care (CPHC) and called for a commitment of two thirds of the health budget toprimary health care.
In February 2018, the Government of India announced that, 1,50,000 AyushmanArogya Mandir would be created by transforming existing Sub Centers (SC) and Primary HealthCenters (PHC) to deliver Comprehensive Primary Health care as one of the key components of‘Ayushman Bharat’.The Ayushman Arogya Mandir offers all its services and free ‘to all’ citizens and is the first point ofcontact for health care in the country.
It focuses both on wellness and illness.
The entire gamut ofpreventive, promotive, curative and rehabilitative services are offered in an expanded range ofservices.
The HWC continues to offer services related to Reproductive & Child Health, Care andControl of Communicable Diseases.
In addition, HWC has initiated services pertaining to non-communicable diseases, Mental Health, ENT, Ophthalmology, Oral health, Geriatric and palliativehealth care and Emergency care which hitherto were available only at the District level.The first Ayushman Arogya Mandir was inaugurated by Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Shri.Narendra Modi at Jangla, Bijapur in Chhattisgarh on 14th April 2018.
Ayushman Arogya Mandirportal was launched by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) with support from NationalHealth System and Resource Centre (NHSRC) and Centre for Health Informatics (CHI) in November2018 to support states in planning and monitoring the progress of operationalizing AyushmanArogya Mandir.The Ayushman Arogya Mandir portal captures facility wise data on profile of facilities and serviceutilization details at these health facilities.
The real time update thus support states and districts tomonitor their progress in operationalizing Ayushman Arogya Mandir.The Ayushman Arogya Mandir Application is an extension of Ayushman Arogya Mandir Portaldesigned to address the challenge of variable quality of internet connectivity.
As the applicationworks in both online and offline mode and can be used on any existing smart phones, it wouldenable Community Health Officers and Medical Officers at Ayushman Arogya Mandirs to submittimely reports on daily and monthly basis.
Ayushman Arogya Mandir Application has been designedkeeping in view the user experience to ease the process of data entry and also enable users to self-monitor their progress on real time basis.