{"id":22754,"date":"2024-04-23T11:23:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T05:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22754"},"modified":"2025-04-06T21:50:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T16:20:25","slug":"rashtriya-arogya-nidhi-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/rashtriya-arogya-nidhi-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi Scheme<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was set up in 1997 and it is a central sector scheme.<\/li>\n<li>It provides <strong>one-time financial assistance<\/strong> to poor patients living below State\/UT wise <strong>threshold poverty line<\/strong> and suffering from life threatening diseases relating to heart, kidney, liver, cancer, etc. for treatment at any of Super Specialty Government hospitals\/institutes.<\/li>\n<li>The Umbrella Scheme of RAN has three components as under:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi<\/strong> (RAN) &#8211; Financial assistance for treatment of life-threatening diseases relating to heart, kidney, liver, etc. at Government hospitals\/institutes having Super Specialty facilities; (Maximum financial assistance is <strong>Rs. 15 lakhs<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Health Minister\u2019s Cancer Patient Fund<\/strong> (HMCPF) &#8211; Financial assistance for treatment of cancer at Regional Cancer Centres (RCCs)\/ Tertiary Care Cancer Centres (TCCCs) and State Cancer Institutes (SCIs); (Maximum financial assistance is Rs. 15 lakhs)<\/li>\n<li>Financial assistance for poor patients <strong>suffering from rare diseases<\/strong> &#8211; for specified rare diseases for treatment at Government hospitals\/institutes having Super Specialty facilities; (Maximum financial assistance is Rs. 20 lakhs).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a rare disease?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a health condition of low prevalence that affects a small number of people compared with other prevalent diseases in the general population.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Delhi\/income-threshold-for-arogya-nidhi-aid-extremely-low-says-delhi-high-court\/article68095283.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Income threshold for Arogya Nidhi aid \u2018extremely low\u2019, says Delhi High Court<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi scheme  was set up in 1997 and it is a central sector scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22754","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\/22754","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=22754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}