RAS question
How many medical packages and procedures are covered under MAAY?
Correct answer: (C) 1,798 packages.
MAAY covers 1,798 medical packages and procedures.
Explanation
MAAY covers 1,798 types of medical packages and procedures for specified IPD and identified procedures. That is why option C is the only supported count. The Rajasthan Medical, Health & Family Welfare Department page also explains what these disease packages include for a beneficiary: registration charges, bed expenses, admission and nursing expenses, surgeon and anaesthesia specialist consultation, anaesthesia, blood, oxygen, OT expenses, medicines, X-rays and investigations, and equipment needed to protect hospital staff and patients from communicable diseases. The key point for the MCQ is the official package count: the scheme software may organise packages for easier use, but the scheme coverage is stated as 1,798 types of packages and procedures.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) 500 packages is far below the official MAAY figure of 1,798 medical packages and procedures.
- (B) 1,000 packages does not match the department's stated MAAY coverage of 1,798 package and procedure types.
- (D) 2,500 packages overstates the official count, which is 1,798 packages and procedures under MAAY.
Concept
This tests Rajasthan welfare-scheme administration, especially the factual design of state health insurance and free-treatment schemes. Such figures recur in RAS because scheme coverage, benefits and implementing departments are direct governance facts.