The Center intends to repurpose CoWIN and Aarogya Setu, two key components of the country’s digital health infrastructure that were used to track Covid-19, as India’s health application. R.S. Sharma, CEO of the National Health Authority (NHA), stated that CoWIN is being repurposed for a national immunisation campaign while Aarogya Setu is being repurposed as India’s health application. “The Indian government is currently repurposing Aarogya Setu as a health application. For the national immunisation programme and as a health management information system for small doctors, the CoWIN, Covid-19 vaccination portal is being repurposed “Speaking at the two-day Arogya Manthan 2022 event on Sunday to commemorate the completion of the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAYfourth )’s year and the first year of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission.
Sharma claimed that by utilising these two Ayushman Bharat pillars, the NHA had built a reliable and interconnected infrastructure. According to him, Covid should no longer be a threat because it is being changed to satisfy India’s worries about digital health. People won’t have to wait in line for very long to check in at a hospital because they can just scan and get an OPD card, he noted. Mansukh Mandaviya, the union health minister, launched the two-day Arogya Manthan 2022 programme on Sunday.
The PMJAY beneficiaries are the most significant stakeholders in the largest public health insurance programme in the world, according to Mandaviya, who also noted that over 24 crore Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA) numbers and over 19 crore Ayushman Cards have been generated throughout the nation. According to him, this marks a significant turning point in the nation’s effort to digitise its medical records.
(source : IANS)
