Ahmedabad: The Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) dashboard indicated that the top procedures in Ahmedabad and Gujarat for which funds were disbursed included haemodialysis, coronary angioplasty, cancer treatment, chemotherapy, and total knee replacements (TKR). It is notable that Ahmedabad cumulatively has 4.92 lakh admissions since the start of the scheme, followed by 2.78 lakh in Rajkot, 2.28 lakh in Surat, and 2.26 lakh in Vadodara, among others. The dashboard did not indicate updated figures on daily admissions.
Data tabled in the Lok Sabha by Union health and family welfare minister JP Nadda in answer to a question indicated that the state ranked second on per patient expenditure. According to the data, the state had 65.05 lakh total admissions under PM-JAY for which an expenditure of Rs 14,992 crore was incurred, amounting to an average of Rs 22,937 per patient for admission. It was second to Maharashtra, which had an average of Rs 23,974 per patient with Rs 6,764 crore incurred for 28.21 lakh patients. Gujarat was followed by Andhra Pradesh with an average of Rs 22,472 per patient.
The all-India average for PM-JAY per patient expense was Rs 14,923, with Maharashtra having the highest at Rs 23,974 and Tamil Nadu having the lowest at Rs 7,417.
Another answer indicated that Gujarat recorded admission of 47.41 lakh patients in the past five years at an average of about 2,600 patients per day. The state received Rs 660 crore in the financial year 2022-23 and Rs 267 crore in 2023-24, added the answer.
Before the deaths of two patients at Khyati Hospital in Ahmedabad in Nov last year and the subsequent crackdown on hospitals, the state de-empanelled five hospitals for violating the rules of affiliation, indicated Lok Sabha data. Experts in Gujarat said that there has not been a major impact of the incident on overall admission figures. “A large share of admissions for super specialty branches take place under the scheme. Efforts are on to iron out administrative gaps, but a clearer picture may emerge after a few months,” said a city-based hospital administrator.