Patiala leads Punjab to facilitate 5475 patients under Sarbat Sehat Bima Yojna

PATIALA: With 5475 patients, district Patiala leads Punjab in facilitating highest number of claims of the patients under the health insurance scheme Sarbat Sehat Bima Yojna.
Patiala Deputy Commissioner Kumar Amit said that flagship Sarbat Sehat Bima Yojna is proving secondary as well as tertiary healthcare services to the needy people in empanelled government and private hospitals. He said that he instructed the health department to expedite the process of generating e-cards in Common Service Centres and Hospitals.
Revealing categorically about patients covered under this scheme, he said that out of 5475 patients, 53 patients got heart surgeries and 24 got knee replacement surgeries done. He said that benefits of about Rs 2.49 crore have been provided to the patients till date in the district.
Kumar Amit further said that a beneficiary would only be considered eligible after being issued the e-card number. Awareness camps are also being organised by the health department to motivate the people to get their e-cards made from the common service centres and hospitals. He said that instructions have been issued to the civil surgeons in this regard so that maximum numbers of patients would get the benefits of Health Insurance Scheme.
DC also said that Chief Minister Punjab Captain Amarinder Singh had launched this flagship scheme on August 20 this year. Notably, the Central government had only entitled the families identified in the SECC Census (2011) while Chief Minister had given in principle approval to extend the cover of this welfare scheme to 5 more categories namely smart ration card holders, small traders, J-form holder farmers, small and marginal farmers and accredited and yellow card holder journalists.