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Key Points

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Financial protection means families do not have to pay huge bills for hospital stays.

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The plan covers both regular (secondary) and advanced (tertiary) medical care.

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Cataract surgery helped about 471,000 seniors see clearly again.

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Kidney haemodialysis helped about 290,000 seniors whose kidneys need cleaning.

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A heart procedure called percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty cost about 649 crore rupees in total.

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Summary

The program gives each family up to five lakh Indian rupees each year for hospital care.

In two years, more than 2.3 million hospital admissions were approved.

Eye surgery for cataracts was the most common treatment, followed by kidney dialysis and heart procedures.

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New Words to Learn

12 words
senior citizen
a person who is 70 years old or older
financial protection
money help so families don’t have to pay a lot
secondary care
regular hospital treatment
tertiary care
special advanced treatment for serious illnesses
cataract
cloudy part of the eye that makes it hard to see
haemodialysis
machine that cleans blood when kidneys cannot
percutaneous
through the skin
transluminal
through a tube inside a blood vessel
coronary
related to the heart’s blood vessels
angioplasty
small operation to open a blocked heart blood vessel
renal
related to the kidneys
exacerbations
times when a sickness gets worse
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