Lok Sabha Question No. 4476 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-03-20
Subject: Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: A.K.P. Chinraj

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4476 TO BE ANSWERED ON 20 TH MARCH, 2020

## RASHTRIYA AROGYA NID HI

## 4476. SHRI A.K.P. CHINRAJ:

Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:

- (a)  whether  the  Union  Government  has  introduced a  new  health  insurance  scheme  Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi (RAN) for the benefit of Below Poverty Line (BPL) families;
- (b) if so, the details thereof;
- (c) the special features of the RAN scheme;
- (d) the extent to which the RAN has been useful to the BPL families; and
- (e) the total number of BPL families benefited out of this scheme, State/UT - wise during the last three years?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## (SHRI ASHWINI KUMAR CHOUBEY)

(a )  to  (e): Under  the  Umbrella  Scheme  of  Rashtriya  Arogya  Nidhi,  financial  assistance  i provided to patients belonging to families living below State/UT - wise threshold poverty lines and  who  are  suffering  from  major  life  threatening  diseases/cancer/rare  diseases,  for treatment at Government hospitals. Financial assistance upto Rs.15 lakh is provided for patients ,which is released in the form o f 'one -time grant' to the Medical Superintendent of the Government hospital where the treatment is being received.

Umbrella  Scheme  of  RAN  is  not  an  insurance  scheme.    The  scheme  has  three components,  namely  (i)  Rashtriya  Arogya  Nidhi  (RAN) -to  provide  f inancial  assistance  to patients suffering from life threatening diseases other than Cancer, (ii) Health Minister's Cancer Patients Fund (HMCPF) -to provide financial assistance to patients suffering from Cancer; (iii) Scheme for financial assistance f or patients suffering from specified rare diseases. Financi assistance under the scheme is not released to States/UTs, but to the hospitals where patients receive treatment. Number of patients benefitted under HMCPF and RAN during la three yea rs is as under :

| Year     | Component   |   No. of patients benefitted |
|----------|-------------|------------------------------|
| 2016- 17 | HMCPF       |                         3109 |
|          | RAN         |                         1120 |
| 2017- 18 | HMCPF       |                         3934 |
|          | RAN         |                         1510 |
| 2018- 19 | HMCPF       |                         1773 |
|          | RAN         |                         1090 |

## Hospital-wise details of patients benefitted under Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi (RAN)

|   S. No. | Name of Hospital                                                       | 2016-17             | 2017-18              | 2018-19             |
|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------|----------------------|---------------------|
|        1 | AIIMS, Delhi                                                           | No. of Patients 642 | No. of Patients 1200 | No. of Patients 710 |
|        2 | AIIMS, Bhubaneshwar                                                    | 1                   | 1                    | 1                   |
|        3 | Dr. RMLHospital , Delhi                                                | 50                  | 6                    | 7                   |
|        4 | G B Pant Hospital, Delhi                                               | 11                  | 7                    | 2                   |
|        5 | Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi      | --                  | 1                    | 4                   |
|        6 | Government Medical College Hospital , Jammu                            | 3                   | 2                    | --                  |
|        7 | G.B. P ant Children H ospital, Srinagar                                | 1                   | --                   | --                  |
|        8 | Institute of Liver & Biliary Sciences, Delhi                           | 24                  | 15                   | 17                  |
|        9 | King George Medical College , Lucknow                                  | 1                   | --                   | 1                   |
|       10 | Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital ,Delhi                          | 11                  | 15                   | 13                  |
|       11 | North Eastern Indira Gandhi Institute of Health and Medical , Shillong | Regional Sciences   | --                   | 3                   |
|       12 | Nil RatanSircar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata                  | --                  | --                   | --                  |
|       13 | Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh  | 81                  | 31                   | 33                  |
|       14 | Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapurm                              | --                  | --                   | 4                   |
|       15 | Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, Delhi                                       | 1                   | 1                    | --                  |
|       16 | Safdarjang Hospital, Delhi                                             | 118                 | 75                   | 69                  |
|       17 | Gauhati Medical College & Hospital, Guwahati                           | 5                   | 1                    | 3                   |
|       18 | Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute Medical Sciences, Lucknow         | of 7                | 12                   | 31                  |
|       19 | Sher - i - Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar      | 25                  | 50                   | 61                  |
|       20 | Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai                                           | --                  | 3                    | 1                   |
|       21 | Civil Hospital, Aizawl                                                 | --                  | --                   | 2                   |
|       22 | Government Medical College, Jammu                                      | --                  | 5                    | 1                   |
|       23 | Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla                                  | --                  | 2                    | --                  |
|       24 | Institute of Kidney Diseases Research Center , Ahmedabad               | and 9               | 5                    | 4                   |

| S. No.   | Name of Hospital                                                                      | 2016-17         | 2017-18         | 2018-19         |
|----------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
| S. No.   | Name of Hospital                                                                      | No. of Patients | No. of Patients | No. of Patients |
| 25       | King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai                                                 | --              | 1               | --              |
| 26       | Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram                                        | --              | --              | --              |
| 27       | Mirza Mohammad Afzal Beigh Memorial Hospital ,Anantnag                                | 1               | --              | 1               |
| 28       | National Institute of Tuberculosis Respiratory Diseases, Delhi                        | and 2           | --              | --              |
| 29       | Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram | 34              | 32              | 66              |
| 30       | Cancer Institute (WIA), Chennai                                                       | --              | 4               | 2               |
| 31       | Delhi State Cancer Institute, Delhi                                                   | --              | 1               | --              |
| 32       | Dostrict Hospital, Kozhencherry                                                       | --              | 2               | 1               |
| 33       | Bhimrao Ambedkar Hospital , Raipur                                                    | --              | 1               | 1               |
| 34       | General Hospital, Ernakulam ,                                                         | --              | 3               | --              |
| 35       | Government Medical College , Kottayyam                                                | --              | 1               | 1               |
| 36       | Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram                                        | --              | 1               | --              |
| 37       | Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital & Research Centre, Visakhapatnam                          | --              | 2               | 2               |
| 38       | Kamala Nehru Memorial Hospital , Allahabad                                            | --              | 3               | 3               |
| 39       | Lady Hardinge Medical College, Delhi                                                  | --              | 1               | 1               |
| 40       | Puducherry Cancer Trust Hospital Research Centre , Puducherry                         | and --          | 12              | 22              |
| 41       | Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences , Rohtak                                  | --              | 2               | --              |
| 42       | Sree Avittam Tirunal Hospital Thiruvananthapuram                                      | --              | 1               | --              |
| 43       | Sawai Man Singh Medical College,                                                      | Jaipur --       | 1               | --              |
| 44       | Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences , T irupati                            | --              | 10              | 20              |
| 45       | Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Institute Medical Sciences, Lucknow                             | of --           | --              | 1               |
| 46       | Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College , Aligarh                                            | --              | --              | 1               |
| 47       | Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences , Ranchi                                       | --              | --              | 1               |
| 48       | Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Education & Research, Puducherry                 | Medical 42      | --              | --              |
| 49       | National Institute of Mental Health Neuro- Sciences, Bengaluru                        | and 51          | --              | --              |
| Total    | Total                                                                                 | 1120            | 1510            | 1090            |

Hospital-wise details of patients benefitted under Health Minister's Cancer Patient Fund (HMCPF)

|       | Name of Hospital                                                                      | 2016-17        | 2017-18        | 2018-19        |
|-------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
| S.No. |                                                                                       | No.of Patients | No.of Patients | No.of Patients |
| 1     | Cancer Hospital, Tripura, Agartala                                                    | 259            | -              | -              |
| 2     | Cancer Hospital & Research C entre, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh                           | 478            | 1447           | 534            |
| 3     | Chittaranjan Nati onal Cancer Institute, Kolkata                                      | 235            | 762            | 770            |
| 4     | Civil Hospital, Aizawl, Mizoram                                                       | 1              | -              | -              |
| 5     | Dr. Bhubaneswar Borooah Cancer Institute , Assam.                                     | 919            | 1116           | -              |
| 6     | AIIMS, New Delhi.                                                                     | 265            | 59             | 123            |
| 7     | Kamala Nehru Memorial Hospital, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh.                             | 502            | -              | -              |
| 8     | Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore, Karnataka                           | 26             | -              | -              |
| 9     | Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh                   | 6              | -              | 5              |
| 12    | PuducherryRegional Cancer Society, JIPMER, Puducherry                                 | 10             | 12             | 18             |
| 13    | Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram Kerala                                     | -              | 95             | 86             |
| 14    | Regional Cancer Control Society, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh                             | 318            | 388            | 165            |
| 15    | Regional Cancer Institute (WIA), Adyar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu                           | 44             | 51             | 25             |
| 17    | Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences., Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh    | 2              | 1              | -              |
| 18    | Sher -I Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar.                       | 20             | 3              | 20             |
| 19    | Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai                                                        | 1              | -              | 3              |
| 21    | Government Medical College, Jammu                                                     | 1              | -              | 1              |
| 22    | Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital , Srinagar                                          | 1              | -              | -              |
| 25    | Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital, , Kolkata                              | 6              | -              | -              |
| 26    | Dr. RML Hospital, Delhi                                                               | 1              | -              | -              |
| 27    | Safdarjang Hospital, Delhi                                                            | 8              | -              | 1              |
| 28    | Government Medical College, Guwahati                                                  | 3              | -              | -              |
| 29    | Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences , Hyderabad                                     | 1              | -              | -              |
| 30    | Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram | 2              | -              | -              |
| 31    | Sri Venkateswara Institute of                                                         | -              | -              | 11             |

|    | Medical Sciences , T irupati                                                        |       |      |      |
|----|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------|------|------|
| 32 | Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital & Research Centre, Visakhapatnam                        | -     | -    |    6 |
| 33 | Cancer Hospital, Aurangabad                                                         | -     | -    |    1 |
| 34 | AIIMS, Bhubaneshwar                                                                 | -     | -    |    1 |
| 35 | Super Specialty Pediatric Hospital and Postgraduate Teaching Institute, NOIDA, UP   | -     | -    |    1 |
| 36 | North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health Medical Sciences, Shillong | and - | -    |    1 |
| 37 | Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi                   | -     | -    |    1 |
|    | Total                                                                               | 3109  | 3934 | 1773 |

Note: Number of patients benefitted includes the number of patients treated by Hospitals out of Revolving Funds as per Utilisation Certificate received.