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Dead constable’s widow gets recovery SMS 42 days after death
A widow in Chhattisgarh received an automated Ayushman Bharat SMS 42 days after her husband's death, congratulating him on recovery. Devnarayan Ram, a police constable, died on 30 June at Ambikapur Medical…
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A widow in Chhattisgarh received an automated Ayushman Bharat SMS 42 days after her husband's death, congratulating him on recovery. Devnarayan Ram, a police constable, died on 30 June at Ambikapur Medical College Hospital. On 11 August, his wife Seema Kujur, a staff nurse, got an Ayushman Sarathi message saying he had 'recovered' and was 'heading home'. Records showed his treatment continued on paper for weeks. Hospital superintendent Dr RC Arya called it an auto-generated glitch and said only Rs 16,500 was deducted for actual treatment. The chief medical officer blamed staff laxity in updating the portal.
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Auto-generated messages are a convenient scapegoat, but the real story is a system that can keep a dead man 'alive' for 42 days without a single human check. Officials call it laxity; the constable's widow suspects a racket. Either way, the Ayushman Bharat portal's failure to update after a death certificate suggests deeper flaws in data integrity. The poor and tribal patients this scheme is meant to serve have no way to catch such errors. The question now is: how many more families are receiving phantom recovery messages?
Source: livemint.com
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