Job-spinner Ayushman Bharat may create employment for 100,000: Indu Bhushan

The Indian Medical Association has criticised the scheme over the use of funds allocated to it and the reimbursement rates

The Ayushman Bharat Mission, apart from being a tertiary health care system, will also be a job-spinner.

Indu Bhushan, chief executive officer of the Ayushman Bharat — National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS), says 100,000 jobs will be created.

Experts say as hospitals start setting up infrastructure for the scheme, employment generation will be an adjunct of that.

Not just that, claim management support at trusts and insurance agencies will help create jobs. Meanwhile, doctors and big hospitals are unhappy with the rates of treatment proposed in the scheme.

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has criticised the scheme over the use