New Delhi, April 28 -- Punjab's publicly funded health insurance programme, Mukh Mantri Sehat Yojana, has covered neonatal intensive care costs in recent cases from Bathinda and Hoshiarpur, highlighting the scheme's role in financing critical care for newborns.

In Bathinda district, a premature infant born at 33 weeks at a private hospital in Rampura Phul required immediate admission to a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) due to respiratory distress. The newborn, weighing 1.926 kg at birth, was placed on continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) support for 10 days, followed by oxygen support for four days, according to the treating doctor.

The infant also developed neonatal jaundice during the treatment period and was managed with p...