Health insurance scheme for cashless treatment for poor

PUDUCHERRY: The Puducherry Health Department in association with the New India Assurance Company today rolled out a cashless treatment for members of BPL families in Mahe and Yanam regions.

A memorandum of understanding was inked between the Director of Health and Family Welfare Services Dr K V Raman and the Chief Regional Manager of the New India Assurance Company in the presence of the Chief Minister N.Rangasamy.

Chairman-cum-Managing Director of the company G.Sreenivasan and Puducherry Welfare Minister P.Rajavelu were among those present.

An official source said the scheme providing cashless health care services particularly for life threatening ailments was in vogue in Karaikal covering BPL members. The insurance cover is upto Rs 1.5 lakh for the beneficiary in the network hospitals identified by the health department.

The SKOCH Group in the Ministry of Finance, New Delhi, an evaluator company, selected the health insurance cover under micro insurance project which is among the fifty projects launched on priority basis in 2012.