Overview
- Punjab is issuing roughly 50,000 Sehat Cards each day, with mobile camps in villages, temples, gurudwaras, and community centers to make sign-ups easy.
- The government reports more than 2 lakh treatments delivered under the scheme so far, with care worth over ₹300 crore and a ₹2,000 crore budget set aside to sustain expansion.
- Mukh Mantri Sehat Yojna offers up to ₹10 lakh a year of cashless treatment per family at government and empanelled private hospitals, including maternal and newborn care.
- In the first three months, over 6,000 newborns received treatment for conditions such as prematurity, low birth weight, infections, jaundice, and breathing problems, with cases reported across Bathinda, Patiala, and Faridkot.
- One case cited by officials is four‑month‑old Diljot from Abohar, whose infection and hole‑in‑the‑heart care costing ₹2.77 lakh was fully covered, as health teams push early checkups in the first 72 hours after birth to improve survival.