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Can Modicare Reshape India’s Health Care Paradigm?

 
• By Anju Ghangurde

India’s new government-funded health care program expects to expand access to treatment to more than 100 million families. Can it effectively deliver on its promise and also materially expand opportunities for hospitals and pharma?

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India’s mammoth health assurance scheme offers hope of better health care for over 100 million families • Source: Shutterstock

An auto rickshaw driver who suffered a heart attack but could not afford surgery was the first beneficiary from the state of Haryana to undergo an angioplasty under India’s Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY). In another case, a wage labourer in Uttar Pradesh state, underwent a free cholecystectomy to get a stone removed from his gall bladder.

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