Short Communication
Year: 2020 | Month: June | Volume: 7 | Issue: 6 | Pages: 160-161
Guillain-Barre Syndrome and Ayushman Bharat: Case Reports from a Tertiary Care Hospital of Himachal Pradesh, India
Vineet Kumar1, Anupam Badhan2, Aarti Dhatwalia3
1OSD, Directorate of Health Services, Himachal Pradesh.
2Senior Resident, Department of Pediatrics, IGMC Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.
3Junior Resident, Department of Pathology, IGMC Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.
Corresponding Author: Aarti Dhatwalia
ABSTRACT
Universal health coverage (UHC) is defined as ensuring that all people have access to needed health services (including prevention, promotion, treatment, rehabilitation and palliation) of sufficient quality to be effective while also ensuring that the use of these services does not expose the user the financial hardship. To achieve UHC Government of India has started Ayushman Bharat; Pradhanmantri Jan Arogya Yojana to provide free secondary and tertiary level care to 500 million socially and economically unprivileged population of country. Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) is a relatively rare disorder, with an incidence ranging between 0.5 to 1.5 cases per 100,000 individuals in the population of 0-17 years. Ayushman Bharat covers GBS but the package assigned to it was not sufficient to cover its actual cost of treatment. Like Guillain Barrie Disease there may be some other diseases which are either not covered at all or inadequately covered. All these lacunae should be reported to the Government and authorities should take series note on these problems and they should be solved at the earliest.
Keywords: Guillain Barre Syndrome, Universal Health coverage, Ayushman Bharat, Immunoglobulins
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