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130 - Dr. Indu Bhushan on COVID-19 and India's Publicly Funded Health Care System, PM-JAY
Season 2 · Episode 130

130 - Dr. Indu Bhushan on COVID-19 and India's Publicly Funded Health Care System, PM-JAY

Public Health On Call · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

August 5, 202015m 8s

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Show Notes

India's Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, or PM-JAY, was founded in 2018 as a government-funded health insurance initiative that provides free services to the poorest 40% of the population. Dr. Indu Bhushan, the Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Authority and CEO of the PM-JAY, talks with Sara Bennett about the COVID-19 pandemic in India and how the health system is addressing the crisis.