Chief Minister, Naveen Pattnaik has announced the third phase of Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana and the new BSKY Nabin Card. It will provide quality healthcare service at no cost to almost all families in the rural areas across the State. With this expansion, over 1.10 Cr families, covering nearly 90% of the population of the State, will be provided health assurance under the scheme.
Sustha Odisha, Sukhi Odisha has been the driving force behind all interventions in health sector in Odisha. It has been my dream to provide universal health coverage to the people of Odisha where healthcare is a right; accessible and affordable for all. To take this vision forward, the Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana was launched 5 years ago bringing about a revolution in providing health assurance to the people of Odisha.
We are launching 3rd phase of BSKY, where all left out families of rural areas of our State will be assured of cashless care in private hospitals, for critical ailments. All rural families of Odisha (except regular Govt employees & income tax payees), who are presently not covered under BSKY, will be eligible to receive the “BSKY Nabin Card”.
With this 3rd phase of expansion, it is estimated that over 1.1 crore families, covering nearly 90% of the population of the State, will be provided health assurance under #BSKY. This will ensure that no family in #Odisha is left vulnerable due to lack of financial resources to meet high expenditure for critical illnesses; thus fulfilling the promise of universal health coverage for the people.
The BSKY Nabin Card will entitle rural households to cashless care of ₹5 lakh per annum (upto ₹10 lakh for women members of the family), in empanelled private hospitals both inside & outside of the State, for identified critical illness.
Under BSKY, every month over 45 lakh persons receive free healthcare at public health facilities in the state, while 1.3 lakh persons receive cashless care. This amounts to ₹260 crore each month in empanelled private hospitals.
In past 5 years, BSKY has provided nearly 21 lakh patients with cashless healthcare of about ₹4,590 Cr in private hospitals alone. It has thus become a unique model for universal health coverage, leveraging the strengths of the public and private sectors to provide comprehensive health assurance to the people of Odisha.
BSKY coverage is being expanded phase-wise, to provide comprehensive health protection to the entire population of our State. In 1st phase of BSKY, all services in public health facilities were made free of cost for all persons, irrespective of income or residence. In 2nd phase, BSKY provided cashless healthcare in private health facilities for ration cardholders.
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