Mukhyamantri Amrutum Yojana

A large number of households are pushed into poverty as a result of high costs of household spending on health care. The Below Poverty Line (BPL) population is especially vulnerable to the catastrophic health risks. To address this key vulnerability faced by the BPL population in the Gujarat the State Government has launched a medical care scheme called Mukhyamantri Amrutum (MA) Yojana. The objective of the scheme is to improve access of BPL families to quality medical and surgical care for the treatment of identified diseases involving hospitalization surgeries and therapies through an empanelled network of health care providers. The surgeries covered are of ; 1. Cardiovascular Surgeries 2. Neurosurgeries 3. Burns 4. Poly Trauma 5. Cancer (Malignancies) 6. Renal (Kidney) 7. Neo-natal (newborn) diseases 'MA' provides quality medical and surgical care for the catastrophic illnesses involving hospitalization surgeries and therapies through an empanelled network of hospitals to the BPL families.