Delay in making Ayushman card leads to death of old woman

An elderly woman suffering from diarrhea died in Jamshedpur on Monday even as the doctors asked her son to bring the recently launched Ayushman card, a part of Centre's flagship healthcare plan.

Local media reports said on Tuesday, Bhaktu Rabidas, son of 80-year-old Reeta Devi, had brought her mother for treatment at MGM Hospital Jamshedpur on Monday. The report quoting Rabidas on Tuesday said he was asked by the doctors to first bring the Ayushman card.

He took around six hours to get the card made. When he reached back to be with his mother, he found she was already dead, the report said.

Rabidas reportedly tore off the card and took the body back to his village, the report added.

The Ayushman Bharat-Jan Arogya scheme was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday from Ranchi.