DC releases funds for treatment of BPL people

HAZARIBAG: Deputy commissioner Manish Ranjan on Tuesday released Rs 30 lakh from the welfare fund for treatment of 21 patients belonging to the BPL (below-poverty line) families in various blocks of Hazaribag.
Out of the 21 beneficiaries who will get Rs 80,000 to Rs 1,50,000 each as per the seriousness and cost, as many as 11 patients have been suffering from severe heart diseases, nine from cancer and one from the kidney trouble.The DC in his press note said he was granting this amount to the 21 patients belonging to the BPL families get sufficient money so that they can go to the best hospitals in the country for their treatment. He said all these applications were pending and sympathetically considered and disposed of after proper scrutiny. The DC released the lists of the patients who will be the funds recipients.