PM- Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission (PM-ABHIM) Scheme
29-12-2024
01:55 PM
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Overview:
The Delhi High Court has recently ordered signing of an MoU between Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Delhi Government for implementing PM- Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission (PM-ABHIM) scheme in the national capital.
About PM- Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission (PM-ABHIM):
- It is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) with some Central Sector Components (CS) which has an outlay of Rs. 64,180 Crores for the scheme period (2021-22 to 2025-26).
- This is the largest pan-India scheme for strengthening healthcare infrastructure across the country.
- The measures under the scheme focus on developing capacities of health systems and institutions across the continuum of care at all levels viz. primary, secondary and tertiary level and on preparing health systems in responding effectively to the current and future pandemics/disasters.
- The objective of the scheme is to fill critical gaps in health infrastructure, surveillance and health research – spanning both the urban and rural areas.
- The following are the components under CS Component of the scheme:
- 12 Central Institutions as training and mentoring sites with 150 bedded Critical Care Hospital Blocks (CCBs);
- Strengthening of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), 5 New Regional NCDCs and 20 metropolitan health surveillance units;
- Expansion of the Integrated Health Information Portal to all States/UTs to connect all public health labs;
- Operationalization of 17 new Public Health Units and strengthening of 33 existing Public Health Units at Points of Entry, that is at 32 Airports, 11 Seaports and 7 land crossings;
- Setting up of 15 Health Emergency Operation Centres and 2 container based mobile hospitals; and
- Setting up of a national institution for One Health, 4 New National Institutes for Virology, a Regional Research Platform for WHO South East Asia Region and 9 Biosafety Level III laboratories.
- Following support is provisioned for States/UTs under CSS component of the scheme:
- Construction of 17,788 rural Health and Wellness Centres (HWCs). HWCs are to be established in plain areas having population of 5000 and in difficult areas - hilly, tribal, desert etc, having a population of 3000.
- Support for 11,024 urban Health and Wellness Centres in all the States with the focus on slum like areas. One Urban-HWC is to be set up as per 15,000-20,000 population for catering predominantly to poor and vulnerable populations, residents of slum and slum-like areas.
- Establishing 3382 Block Public Health Units (BPHUs) at block levels.
- Setting up of Integrated Public Health Labs (IPHLs) in 730 districts.
- Establishing Critical Care Hospital Blocks (CCBs) in 602 districts (with population more than 5 lakhs) and with referral linkages in other districts.
Q1: What is a centrally sponsored scheme?
These are schemes that are funded partially by both the Central and State Governments. It is a channel which the central government uses to help the states run their plans financially. The amount of state participation varies from state to state. Their implementation rests on the Union territories and the States.