thiruvananthapuram the state has received three prestigious health awards that were announced by union health and family welfare minister mansukh mandaviya in the arogya manthan 30 held to mark the third anniversary of ayushman bharat pradhan mantri jan arogya yojana ab pmjaythe state received the award for providing the highest number of free treatments across the country under the karunya arogya suraksha padhathi kasp the award for the hospital that provided the highest number of free treatments was bagged by government medical college kottayam the pradhan mantri arogya mitra award for providing the highest number of cards under ab pm jaykasp was bagged by a aswathi of vandanam medical college alappuzhahealth minister veena george said that the award is a recognition to the state that undertook the activities through the kasp in the last three years about 2 crore people were given free treatment in the country of this 275 lakh people which is 1366 of the total number are from the state the minister said the minister added that the implementation of kasp in the state has been entrusted to the state health agency sha that took care of the programme even during the pandemic even covid19affected patients who are not beneficiaries under kasp have received free treatment from private hospitals in the stateunder kasp a family is offered free treatment up to rs 5 lakh in a year and under the karunya benevolent fund kbf free treatment up to rs 2 lakh is offered once in a lifetime all families with annual income less than rs 3 lakh and are not included under kasp are offered benefits under kbf presently the benefits under these schemes are offered in 192 government hospitals and 569 private hospitals