The Ayushman-Bharat- Health and Wellness Scheme(AB-HWC), launched in 2018, is India’s big hope to deliver on the promise of universal and comprehensive primary health care- a logical extension of the efforts that the National Health Mission,2005 had begun. Its success would have paved the way for the realization of the right to healthcare. But in its rapid scaling up there has been weak conceptual clarity and many essential features of the scheme are under threat. Can the situation be retrieved? In this conversation, three public health practitioners who have been closely associated with its design and/or implementation discuss some of the urgent course corrections that the public health community could help with….
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