Amrit Pal Singh Brar
Sri Muktsar Sahib, December 20:
To facilitate the secondary and tertiary healthcare services to around 46 lakhs families of Punjab under ‘Ayushman Bharat Sarbat Sehat Bima Yojna’, the process of generating e-cards is in full swing at Common Service Centres (CSC) and hospitals in State and the health department has issued the 1,80,986 e-cards till date in the district Sri Muktsar Sahib.
It was disclosed here today in press communiqué by Deputy Commissioner Sri Muktsar Sahib MK Aravind Kumar IAS.
MK Aravind Kumar said that the dedicated State Health Agency was overseeing the all functioning of CSC and hospitals where these e-cards were being issued to the eligible families. He further said that instructions had already been issued to the all empanelled government and private hospitals to ensure the medical facilities under this Universal Health Insurance Scheme.
Revealing further, MK Aravind Kumar said that the treatment under the Scheme commenced from 20th August, 2019 across the state and within the 4 months, more than 2812 patients had been admitted to Public and Private Hospitals in District Sri Muktsar Sahib and provided cashless treatment under the Scheme.
Lauding the department for putting in the best efforts in such a short span of time, Deputy Commissioner also said it was a matter of record that in just 4 months after launching of the Sarbat Sehat Bima Yojna’, around 1,80,986 e-cards have been issued to the beneficiaries while he further directed the department to accelerate the process of issuing of e cards to beneficiaries.
The Deputy Commissioner said that this flagship scheme was launched by the Chief Minister Punjab Captain Amarinder Singh. The Chief Minister had given his principle approval to extend the cover of this welfare scheme to 45.89 lakh families (75% of the State population) under 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 as the Central Government only entitled the families identified in the SECC Census (2011).
