India, Feb. 9 -- In a major overhaul of the Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Jan Arogya Yojana (MJPJAY), the Maharashtra government will empanel 2,767 Primary Health Centres (PHCs) and Urban Primary Health Centres (UPHCs) under the scheme and operationalise a special corpus fund to cover high-cost procedures such as heart, liver and bone marrow transplants.

The process will be completed within the next two weeks, officials said.

The PHCs are run by the public health department, and UPHCs are run by the municipal corporations. At present, MJPJAY and PM-JAY have 2,481 empanelled hospitals, nearly 1,800 of them private. With the inclusion of 2,767 PHCs and UPHCs, the total number will be increased to 5,248 and beneficiaries will be able to access tre...