Pay doctors on time, don't treat quarantine period as leave: SC to govt

Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka and Tripura haven't followed mandates to pay compensations to human services laborers occupied with Covid-19, the Center on Friday told the Supreme Court.
The court guided the Center to give essential headings for discharging pay rates of specialists and bleeding edge medicinal services laborers occupied with Covid-19 obligation on schedule.
A seat of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R Subhash Reddy and M R Shah asked the Center to likewise explain on rewarding obligatory isolate time of medicinal services laborers as leave and conclusion of their pay rates for a similar period.
"On the off chance that the states are not consenting to the bearings and requests of the Central government, you are not powerless. You need to guarantee that your request is executed. You have the force under the Disaster Management Act. You can make strides likewise", the seat disclosed to Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, showing up for the Center.
Mehta said that after the top court's headings on June 17, fundamental requests were given on June 18 to all the states, with respect to installment of pay rates to social insurance laborers.
He said that numerous states have followed the bearings yet some of them like Maharashtra, Punjab, Tripura and Karnataka have not paid pay rates to the specialists and social insurance laborers on schedule.
Senior Advocate KV Vishwanathan, showing up for solicitor Arushi Jain, said the high hazard and okay grouping made by the Center has no premise and the administration warning of June 18 after the top court's structure has no method of reasoning premise.
He said that there is still non-installment of compensations to medicinal services laborers.
The seat was hearing a request of Dr Arushi Jain, a private specialist scrutinizing the Center's May 15 choice that 14-day isolate was not required for specialists.
The top court additionally observed an application documented by United Resident Doctors Association (URDA) through promoters Mithu Jain, Mohit Paul and Arnav Vidyarthi that compensations of specialists are being deducted for the time of mandatory isolate regarding it as leave period.

To this, Mehta yielded that "the said period can't be treated as leave" and said that he would take vital directions on the issue.

India provided medical supplies to 120 nations to fight Covid-19: Goyal

India has provided medical supplies to over 120 countries to combat the coronavirus pandemic, out of which 43 countries received it as a grant, Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said during the G-20 trade ministers session on Thursday.
Goyal participated during the second G20 Virtual Trade and Investment Ministers Meeting.
"We offer full support to any global engagements to further this cause. Staying true to our tradition of 'Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam' -- the world is one big family. India has unconditionally provided medical supplies to over 120 countries to combat this disease, of which 43 countries received it as a grant. We are also sharing our medical and public health expertise and capacity with them, using digital technologies," said Goyal.
During his intervention, Goyal called upon the G20 nations to ensure access to essential medicines, treatments and vaccines at affordable prices.

He said that the unprecedented situation calls for solidarity and a balanced, inclusive and calibrated response. "An overriding priority for all countries at this time is to save precious lives," the minister added.

Ayushman Bharat working to identify those left out, says CEO Indu Bhushan

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About 70 per cent Indians rely on private healthcare for their health needs and bear out of pocket costs, which plunged 55 million people into poverty in 2012.
India has earlier tried out national insurance models such as the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) that started in 2008, aiming to cover hospitalisation expenses upto Rs 30,000 for families below the poverty line. Its overall performance was poor and the scheme failed to reduce impoverishment.
In September 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the ambitious Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY), the National Health Protection Scheme, in Ranchi, Jharkhand. The scheme that subsumed RSBY provided an insurance cover of Rs 5 lakh to 100 million ‘poor and vulnerable’ families identified by the socio-economic caste census (SECC) of 2011.
More than a year later, we spoke with Indu Bhushan, the chief executive officer of AB-PMJAY and the National Health Authority (NHA), which is responsible for implementing the scheme.“We have gone beyond RSBY,” said Bhushan, sitting in his seventh floor NHA office on New Delhi’s Janpath. By December 2, 2019, PMJAY has covered over 6.8 million hospitalisations worth Rs 7,160 crore and has issued over 67 million e-cards to beneficiaries, according to PMJAY website and NHA. It is present in all but four states--Odisha, Telangana, West Bengal and New Delhi.

Pointing to the large screen showing the PMJAY dashboard, Bhushan said two-thirds of the hospitalisations were in private hospitals and for tertiary care. “So we are taking care of problems like catastrophic expenditure,” Bhushan said. “We have spent Rs 8,000 crore, but the savings to people is Rs 15,000 crore....Read More