Uttar Pradesh: Health schemes

Uttar Pradesh's main health schemes are Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY, the state-funded Mukhya Mantri Jan Arogya Abhiyan (MMJAA) and a cashless scheme for state employees, all run by the state agency SACHIS. The Budget 2026-27 proposes ₹37,956 crore for Medical, Health and Family Welfare and ₹14,997 crore for medical education.

Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY

• A flagship Government of India scheme launched on 23rd September 2018.
• Gives health cover of up to ₹5 lakh per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalisation, cashless and paperless, with pre-existing diseases covered from day one.
• Nationally it covers over 10.74 crore families (about 50 crore beneficiaries); families are identified from the Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) 2011.
• Claims: Ayushman Bharat claims of 3341 Cr. were paid in 2025-26, which the budget booklet ranks 1st in the country.
• Budget 2026-27: ₹2,000 crore for the Ayushman Bharat National Health Protection Mission.

Mukhya Mantri Jan Arogya Abhiyan (MMJAA)

• Launched by the state on 1st March 2019 for eligible families left out of PM-JAY but meeting similar SECC 2011 criteria.
• Fully funded by the State Government.
• Gives the same benefit package as PM-JAY: ₹5 lakh cover per family per year, cashless and paperless treatment at empanelled hospitals.
• Under the combined Ayushman Bharat-Mukhyamantri Jan Arogya Yojana, 49.22 lakh families have benefited; ₹500 crore is proposed for 2026-27.

Cashless Scheme for State Employees

• Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Rajya Karmchari Cashless Chikitsa Yojana gives cashless care to State Government employees, retired employees and their dependants.
• It works under the UP Government Servant (Medical Attendance) Rules, 2011 (amended 2014, 2016 and 2021).
• By a Government Order of 07 January 2022, beneficiaries can use all PM-JAY empanelled government and private hospitals.
• Limit: up to ₹5 lakh per family per year in empanelled private hospitals; no financial limit in government medical colleges and hospitals in UP.
• A State Health Card is mandatory.

SACHIS

• The State Agency for Comprehensive Health and Integrated Services is the nodal agency for health programmes covering over 9 crore people in the state.
• It also covers workers such as Building and Other Construction Workers (BoCW), sets up Jan Aushadhi Kendras in government hospitals, and monitors empanelled hospitals.

Medical Education

• Medical colleges: the budget highlights give 81 (45 state-run, 36 private), covering 60 districts.
• Medical colleges are to be set up in 16 unserved districts through PPP.
• Seats: the highlights state PG seats rose from 1,221 (2017) to 4,995.
• Provisions: ₹1,023 crore for 14 new medical colleges; ₹315 crore for the Cancer Institute, Lucknow; ₹130 crore for free treatment of incurable diseases.
• New schemes: hospitals in 27 autonomous state medical colleges, Level-2 Trauma Centers, and four Super Specialty Hospitals in PPP mode.

Public Health Programmes

• National Rural Health Mission: about ₹8,641 crore.
• Janani Shishu Suraksha Programme runs in all districts.
• Rashtriya Baal Swasthya Karyakram: two medical teams per block check children at anganwadi centres and schools.
• Japanese Encephalitis: vaccination in 42 sensitive districts.
• Pulse Polio Abhiyan (from 08 December, 2024): drops given to 03 crore 28 lakh 44 thousand 929 children.

AYUSH and Pharma

• AYUSH services: about ₹2,867 crore. The state has 2,111 Ayurvedic, 254 Unani and 1,585 Homoeopathic hospitals, and 8, 2 and 9 medical colleges respectively.
• UP Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Industry Policy 2023: capital subsidies up to 25%, 50-60% interest subsidies for infrastructure/land and 100% stamp duty exemption.
• Promote Pharma: a Section 8 not-for-profit body with a 500-crore revolving fund for pharma research.