<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">In Jammu and Kashmir, the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) SEHAT Scheme is emerging as a ray of hope for poor families who couldn't afford health treatment at prestigious and well known medical institutes of the country. </span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br />''</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">AIR Jammu Correspondent reports that AB-PMJAY SEHAT scheme would cover five lakh women and their families who are associated with Self Help Groups of J&K Rural Livelihood Mission (JKRLM) to pace up 100% saturation. The SEHAT Scheme was launched in convergence with AB-PMJAY by the Prime Minister in order to provide health insurance cover of Rs 5 lakh per family per year to all the residents at empanelled hospitals. CEO, Ayushman Bharat, Ayushi Sudan emphasised the need for IEC activities so that more and more people get registered for the scheme.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br />''</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Under the initiative of 'Gaon Gaon Ayushman', the State Health Agency (SHA) has also started to reach out to even last mile villages which remain cut from the rest of the world due to adverse weather conditions so as to percolate the benefits of the scheme down to every beneficiary. The SHA has set up a network of more than 8000 Common Service Centres in J&K to ensure hassle-free registration of all eligible beneficiaries under the scheme.</span></p>