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| Haryana provides health cover to 1.29 million BPL families |
| BS Reporter / Chandigarh Jul 20, 2009, 17:24 IST |
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Haryana has become the first state in the country to achieve the distinction of extending health insurance cover to all the 1.29 million below-poverty-line (BPL) families dotting the length and breadth of the state, under the Rashhtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY).
Disclosing this here today, the Chief Minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, said that the state had done it in a record period of time, beating the deadline it had set for itself, by a clean four years.
Launched in 2008-09, the RSBY was to be extended to all BPL families in the state by 2012-13. “But we pulled all stops and pressed all levers to ensure that all the BPL families are extended the cover at the earliest. It was a bit difficult but our team took keen interest in implementing the scheme in the entire state in the year of launch,” Hooda said.
Explaining the broad contours of the insurance scheme, Dr D. V. Saharan, Director, Employees State Insurance Health Care, Haryana, said that it offered a cashless and paperless cover under which treatment worth Rs 30,000 per year was offered free of cost to any member of the BPL family in case of injury, disease and ailment necessitating hospitailsation. It covers the cost of transportation, investigation, surgery, food etc and the choice of hospital is left to the patient.
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