130 - Dr. Indu Bhushan on COVID-19 and India’s Publicly Funded Health Care System, PM-JAY

Published: Aug. 5, 2020, 10 a.m.

India’s Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, or PM-JAY, was founded in 2018 as a government-funded health insurance initiative that provides free services to the poorest 40% of the population. Dr. Indu Bhushan, the Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Authority and CEO of the PM-JAY, talks with Sara Bennett about the COVID-19 pandemic in India and how the health system is addressing the crisis.