Bhaskar Exclusive: Patients have to spend money to undergo surgery due to non-availability of Ayushman card

Patan is a city of hospitals, patients from as far as Kutch, including North Gujarat, come here for treatment, the process of approving the new Ayushman card, which is based on income cards, does not take 20-20 days. At present, the cards of about 100 applicants are currently pending without approval at the Ayushman Center of the Civil Hospital in the city. . Case 1: Vallabhai Soraki said that he had a wart and was admitted to a private hospital in the city saying that he was suffering from warts and needed to undergo surgery. The Ayushman card was required for the operation and the card was taken out at the center of the Civil Hospital. The patient's son said, "We waited for a week for my father to undergo a wart operation, but when the card was not approved, we had to get the operation done with money. Case 2: After waiting for 5 days, I finally got my hand pellet operated on by spending money Ichhaben Thakor said that my hand was injured when our rickshaw overturned near Kolhapur. We went to the Civil Hospital to get the Ayushman card removed, but even after waiting for 5 days, the card was not approved and finally the family was forced to pay for the operation of the hand ball. No one has the power to give permission in Patan district: Centre The Ayushman centre operator said that the cards of the beneficiaries of subsidised grains are approved immediately, but most of the Ayushman cards that are removed from the income entries are not approved and are pending. These pending cards are approved at the state level.