Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo Arvind Kejriwal launched the ‘Mukhyamantri Sehat Bima Yojana’ in Chandigarh on Tuesday. Under this scheme, health cards will be made for every person in Punjab. With the health card, they will get free treatment up to Rs 10 lakh. Cards will start being made from October 2.
Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said that big hospitals are included in this scheme. People need not worry. Earlier people used to be stuck in the hassle of blue and yellow cards. Now through the health card, we have decided that whoever is a resident of Punjab will get treatment in any case.
5 important questions and answers related to ‘Mukhyamantri Sehat Bima Yojana’…
Question: When will the scheme start?
Answer: Health cards will start being made in Punjab from October 2.
Question: Who will get the benefit of the scheme?
Answer: Cards will be made for all the people of Punjab. Farmers, labourers, government employees, pensioners, all will be able to take advantage of this.
Question: How can the card be made?
Answer: For this, registration camps will start in the facility centers and hospitals. For this, only Aadhar card and voter card will have to be shown.
Question: Which diseases will be covered?
Answer: The government has not yet given its details. However, the government says that all serious diseases will be covered in this scheme.
Question: In which hospitals will the benefits of the scheme be available?
Answer: The government says that all government and private hospitals will be able to get free treatment with the card. By the time the scheme starts, the number of private hospitals in the state will be taken to 2 thousand.
How different is the new scheme from Ayushman Yojana?
Mukhyamantri Sarbat Sehat Bima Yojana is already running in Punjab, under which free treatment up to 5 lakhs is available in government and panel hospitals. 80 percent of the people of the state are covered under this scheme. Apart from this, Ayushman Bharat Yojana is being run by the central government, which provides treatment up to Rs 5 lakh to people below the poverty line in government and listed hospitals across India. This scheme is applicable in all the states, but the participation of the state government is necessary in it.
Now people of all age groups will be able to take advantage of the new scheme that the Punjab government has brought. There is no such condition in this scheme that only so many percent of people will get its benefit, but for this it is only necessary to be a resident of Punjab.
