Mother Teresa Memorial Awards for Social Justice 2020
Harmony Foundation hosted the Mother Teresa Memorial Awards for Social Justice.
The Awards in its 16th year is the only award endorsed by Sister Prema, the Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity, the organization started by Mother Teresa. The theme for this year‟s awards was,
‗Celebrating Compassion In Times Of Covid ‗.
Awardees this year included:
·
Dr Anthony Fauci (USA) is the
Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USA. He
and his task force were among the first ones to realize the seriousness of this
pandemic.
·
Father Fabio Stevenazzi (Milan,
Italy), decided to return to medical practice in order to help those
infected with COVID 19 has thrust him to be the modern-day example of St
Charles Borromeo who in 1576 during the Great Plague that hit the city of Milan
and cut the population by half, stayed behind to nurse the sick and renovate
hospitals.
Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) SEHAT
scheme
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) SEHAT scheme. The main aim behind the scheme is to extend health insurance coverage to all residents of Jammu and Kashmir.
About the AB-PMJAY Scheme
SEHAT stands for Social, Endeavour for Health and
Telemedicine. It is a health insurance scheme for the
Union Territory.
It provides free of cost insurance cover to all the
residents of the UT of J&K.
It also provides financial cover up to Rs.5 Lakh per
family on a floater basis to all residents of the UT of
J&K and an operational extension of PM-JAY to 15
lakh (approximately) additional families.
Important points about PM- JAY
It is the world‘s largest health insurance/assurance
scheme fully financed by the government, provides a
cover of Rs 500,000 per family per year for secondary
and tertiary care hospitalisation across public and
private empanelled hospitals in India.
The benefit of Rs 5,00,000 is on a family floater basis.
This means that it can be used by one or all members
of the family.
It covers medical procedures including oncology,
cardiology, nephrology etc and up to three days of
pre-hospitalisation and 15 days post-hospitalisation
expenses like diagnostics and medicines are also
included in the scheme.