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New India Assurance to insure health workers engaged in coronavirus fight

The special insurance scheme would be a group personal accident policy, which includes accidental loss of life on account of contracting the deadly virus.

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Medics wearing protective suits interact with each other outside an isolation ward, set up in view of coronavirus pandemic in Kochi. PTI

Subrata Panda Mumbai

2 min read Last Updated : Mar 30 2020 | 10:55 PM IST

The central government has selected New India Assurance, the country’s largest public sector non-life insurer, to provide insurance coverage to more than 2 million health care professionals taking care of the patients diagnosed with the deadly Covid-19.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, last week, announced that under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana, all health care professionals — safai karmacharis, ward boys, ASHA workers, paramedics technicians, doctors, and specialists — would be covered by a special insurance scheme. “Any health care professional, who while treating Covid-19 patients, meets with an accident, he/she would be compensated with an amount of Rs 50

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