{"id":17461,"date":"2023-11-27T12:51:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T07:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17461"},"modified":"2025-04-05T04:29:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T22:59:39","slug":"abha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/abha\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>ABHA is a\u00a0randomly generated 14-digit number used for the purposes of\u00a0uniquely identifying persons,\u00a0authenticating them, and\u00a0threading their health records (only\u00a0with their\u00a0informed consent)\u00a0across multiple systems and stakeholders.<\/li>\n<li>People can opt-in\u00a0to\u00a0create a digitally secure ABHA, which allows them\u00a0to access and share their health data with participating healthcare providers and payers.<\/li>\n<li>It helps citizens\u00a0maintain their health records at one place.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It allows users, insurance companies, and hospitals\u00a0to access health records digitally.<\/li>\n<li>It will enable\u00a0easy digital access to lab reports, prescriptions, consultation details, and diagnoses from verified doctors by presenting the Health ID.<\/li>\n<li>In addition, it will\u00a0digitally connect the hospitals across the country with each other.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Having an\u00a0ABHA health ID card is not mandatory. People\u00a0can choose to register for the facility\u00a0or erase their information from the ABHA database if they want to opt out of this facility.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Facts about National Medical Commission (NMC)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0statutory body established under the\u00a0National Medical Commission Act, 2019.<\/li>\n<li>It has\u00a0replaced the Medical Council of India (MCI), constituted under the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956.<\/li>\n<li>Functions:\n<ul>\n<li>NMC\u00a0regulates medical education\u00a0and medical professionals.<\/li>\n<li>The Commission\u00a0grants recognition of medical qualifications,\u00a0gives accreditation to medical schools, grants\u00a0registration to medical practitioners,\u00a0monitors medical practice,\u00a0and assesses the medical infrastructure in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Headquarters: New Delhi<\/li>\n<li>Organisational structure of NMC:\n<ul>\n<li>It consists of\u00a033 members,\u00a0including the Chairman (medical professionals only),\u00a010 ex-officio members,\u00a0and\u00a022 partime members.<\/li>\n<li>Medical Advisory Council: It provides the\u00a0platform through\u00a0which the\u00a0states or UTs\u00a0can put forth their views and concerns before the NMC and advises the NMC on measures to determine and maintain minimum standards of medical education.<\/li>\n<li>Four autonomous boards:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Under-Graduate Medical Education Board (sets norms for undergraduate (UG) courses),<\/li>\n<li>Post-Graduate Medical Education Board (sets norms for post-graduate courses),<\/li>\n<li>Medical Assessment and Rating Board (inspects and rates the medical education institutes), and<\/li>\n<li>Ethics and Medical Registration Board (regulates professional conduct of the doctors and registers them).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Ayushman Bharat Scheme?<\/h3>\n<p>Ayushman Bharat, a flagship scheme of Government of India, was launched as recommended by the National Health Policy 2017, to achieve the vision of Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Ayushman Bharat Yojana is the world\u2019s largest health insurance scheme that provides a health insurance cover of Rs 5 lacs to each Indian family who is eligible. The scheme caters to nearly 50 crore beneficiaries and provides them access to tertiary and secondary care hospitalization, which is 40% of the Indian poor and vulnerable families.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribuneindia.com\/news\/punjab\/abha-ids-must-for-patients-hospitals-told-566239#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>ABHA IDs must for patients, hospitals told<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABHA is a randomly generated 14-digit number used for the purposes of uniquely identifying persons and threading their health records across multiple systems and stakeholders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}