INTRODUCTION
PM Swasthya Suraksha Yojna was introduced in 2003. It is a sincere effort and basically the Government’s commitment to provide quality healthcare for its diverse and vast population. It also aims to improve the quality of medical education. This initiative by the Government of India subsequently aims to bridge the gap in healthcare accessibility across the nation. This can be done primarily by focusing on establishing AIIMS and upgrading government medical institutions.
PMSSY is putting an effort to facilitate both urban as well as rural populations to provide advanced medical facilities. By fostering research, enhancing medical education, and promoting skill development, the scheme finally envisions a healthier India.
UNDERSTANDING PMSSY:-
PMSSY is also known as the Prime Minister’s Health Protection Scheme.It is healthcare scheme launched to address the existing issues by concentrating on the following key areas:
1. Upgrading medical education: PMMSY aims to improve the quality of medical education in India by setting up new colleges, upgrading existing ones. It also ensure development of skilled healthcare professionals.
2. Expanding Healthcare Infrastructure: The scheme puts a sincere effort to expand and modernize the existing healthcare infrastructure. Through this scheme, the Government aims to modernize hospitals to meet the growing demand for medical services across the country.
3. Providing Accessible Healthcare: Scheme emphasizes providing accessible as well as affordable healthcare services to all citizens, especially in underserved and remote areas.
OBJECTIVE OF PM SWASTHYA SURAKSHA YOJNA:-
1. Make Health care accessible: The plan ensures that it is specifically accessible to everyone at a cheaper rate. The advanced medical facilities are not only approachable to urban population but also to people living in remote villages.
2. Improve Medical education: The scheme aims to build more new medical colleges and renovate existing colleges. Under this scheme, the faculty and infrastructure of existing medical colleges are improved.Thereupon it helps to create more doctors and health experts providing people with better medical facilities.
3. Support Medical research: The scheme also aims to help medical researchers by giving monetary aids and resources to medical institutions. Thereby it may develop new treatments and make healthcare even better.
4. Hospital upgradation: PMSSY ensures that all the existing hospitals are equipped with modern facilities and equipment.In this way scheme ensures that patients get the best care at the hospitals.
5. Training to healthcare Workers: The scheme offers also training to the healthcare workers so that they may serve the patients in a better way.
6. Minimize healthcare differences between places: The scheme aims to reduce the differences in healthcare services between different parts of the country. The scheme tries to provide the same healthcare service to both urban and rural areas effectively.
7. Less load on big and famous hospitals: Building many AIIMS in the country, Scheme ensures that people don’t go to crowded hospitals for specialized medical facilities.
8.Work in collaboration with private companies:PMSSY encourages both Government and Private medical Institutes to work together and provide a better healthcare service to citizens.
COMPONENTS OF PMSSY:-
The PM Swasthya Suraksha Yojna has two main components:
- Setting up AIIMS–like Institutes: PMSSY aims to establish Institutions with modern facilities, research capabilities, and equipment to serve people as a whole in a better way. In this regard, the Government has finally started establishing the AIIMS in different parts of India.
- Upgrading Government Medical Colleges: Another important step taken by PMSSY is to upgrade the existing medical colleges. Upgrading medical colleges involves improving infrastructure, expanding medical services, enhancing the quality of education, etc. This will definitely ensure better healthcare for people and will produce more skilled healthcare professionals.
These two components ultimately work together to improve healthcare accessibility, quality, and education in various parts of the country.
ACHIVEMENTS OF PM SWASTHYA SURAKSHA YOJNA:-
The scheme has achieved significant milestones in India’s healthcare sector:
1. Establishment of AIIMS-
PMSSY has successfully established new AIIMSs in various states and thus uplifted the medical facilities provided to countrymen. These institutes have finally become the center of excellence for healthcare, education, and research.
2. Upgradation of medical colleges: The existing medical colleges have been modernized and expanded to consequently meet the growing demand of patients. The upgradation in these institutes meets international standards. This has improved the quality and accessibility of medical education and healthcare services.
3. Strengthening District hospitals: To enhance the quality and accessibility in rural as well as underserved areas the scheme has strengthened district hospitals.
4. Super specialty care: To ensure specialized healthcare, PMSSY has correspondingly facilitated the development of super specialty healthcare services in a different part of the country.
5. Increase in medical seats: To address the shortage of healthcare professionals, PMSSY has correspondingly increased the seats in the medical college entrance test.
CHALLENGES AND FUTURE PROSPECTS:-
Though PMSSY has made significant progress, there are challenges in its path:
1. Sustainable Funding: Adequate funding is required to maintain and expand the modern healthcare system developed so far. Arranging a continuous and sustainable source of funding for healthcare infrastructure and education is a big challenge.
2. Addressing emerging Health issues:
Frequently new health challenges emerge like pandemics, coronavirus, and non-communicable diseases. PMSSY needs to gear up to handle these situations in difficult times but such facility unavailability is a challenge.
3. Rural Urban disparity:Though the PMSSY tries to bridge the gap between rural and urban regional imbalance, disparities in healthcare facility still exists. Providing the same facility and accessibility is still a challenge for the scheme.
4. Quality Assurance: Maintaining and ensuring the high quality of medical education and healthcare service is an ongoing challenge. Regular evaluation and accreditation are essential to ensure high standards.
CONCLUSION:
PMSSY has brought significant improvement in healthcare accessibility and quality.PMSSY has played an instrumental role in reshaping the India’s healthcare by expanding medical education and upgrading healthcare infrastructure.However there are still challenges to ensure sustainable funding, regional disparity and to address emerging health issues.PMSSY is a crucial step towards achieving healthcare system of International standards and improving the overall health of citizens.
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