{"id":276653,"date":"2026-01-19T00:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T18:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=276653"},"modified":"2026-01-19T00:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T18:46:07","slug":"awareness-drive-on-digital-health-assurance-schemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/awareness-drive-on-digital-health-assurance-schemes\/","title":{"rendered":"Awareness drive on digital health assurance schemes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SEIJOSA, 18 Jan:<\/strong> The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission and the State Health Agency under the Health &amp; Family Welfare Department conducted an awareness drive on digital health initiatives and health assurance schemes on the sidelines of the 9th Pakke Paga Hornbill Festival-2026 here in Pakke-Kessang district on Sunday, with the objective of promoting accessible, affordable, and technology-enabled healthcare.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Health &amp; Family Welfare Minister Biyuram Wahge emphasised the importance of adopting digital health solutions and healthcare assurance schemes, and also encouraged the public to avail of the government&#8217;s healthcare schemes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The public availed of benefits under the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana and Chief Minister Arogya Arunachal Yojana through on-the-spot enrolment and health card creation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Live demonstrations and instant creation of Ayushman Bharat health account IDs were also conducted to facilitate access to digital health records and healthcare services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As part of the outreach activities, non-communicable disease screening and homoeopathy screening tests were conducted, focusing on early detection, preventive healthcare, and holistic treatment approaches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The initiative witnessed participation of visitors and local residents, contributing significantly to improved health awareness at the community level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wahge reiterated the government&#8217;s commitment to ensuring accessible, affordable, and quality healthcare for all through digital health initiatives, preventive care programmes, and sustained community engagement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Health &amp; Family Welfare Department reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening healthcare infrastructure, promoting digital health adoption, and expanding outreach efforts to achieve universal health coverage in Arunachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The event was attended also by Urban Affairs Minister Balo Raja, the forest minister&#8217;s adviser Wangling Lowangdong, Health &amp; Family Welfare Secretary Vivek HP, ICLS State Mission Director Anu Singh, Pakke Tiger Reserve Divisional Forest Officer Dhawan Kumar Rawat, Pakke-Kessang DC Bani Lego, and Pakke-Kessang SP Tashi Darang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEIJOSA, 18 Jan: The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission and the State Health Agency under the Health &amp; Family Welfare Department conducted an awareness drive on digital health initiatives and health assurance schemes on the sidelines of the 9th Pakke Paga Hornbill Festival-2026 here in Pakke-Kessang district on Sunday, with the objective of promoting accessible, affordable, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-276653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276655,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276653\/revisions\/276655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}