Summary
It has been working for two years and helped many older people go to the hospital.
The plan pays for things like eye surgery, kidney treatment, and heart care.
Key Points
4 points1
Covers up to 5 lakh Indian rupees (about five hundred thousand rupees) each family every year.
2
More than 2.3 million hospital visits have been approved.
3
The most common treatment was eye surgery for cataracts.
4
Kidney dialysis and heart procedures were also common.
New Words to Learn
13 wordssenior citizen
a person who is 70 years old or older
hospitalisation
staying in a hospital for treatment
cataract
a cloudy part of the eye that makes it hard to see
haemodialysis
a machine that cleans the blood when kidneys are not working well
percutaneous
through the skin
transluminal
through a tube inside a blood vessel
coronary
relating to the heart’s blood vessels
angioplasty
a small operation to open a blocked heart blood vessel
knee replacement
surgery to fix a bad knee
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
a long‑term lung problem that makes breathing hard
acute
sudden and serious
exacerbations
times when a sickness gets worse
renal
relating to the kidneys
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