As many as 374 migrant workers in Kerala have obtained the good thing about medical insurance coverage under the State authorities’s Awaz well being scheme. File.
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As many as 374 migrant workers in Kerala have obtained the good thing about medical insurance coverage under the State authorities’s Awaz well being scheme as of January 31, 2023.
The complete insurance coverage quantity availed is â‚ą50.48 lakh. The households of 36 migrant workers have been supplied â‚ą2 lakh every under the unintentional demise protection scheme, in keeping with information supplied by the Labour division in response to an software filed by Raju Vazhakkala under the Right to Information Act. Around 5.16 lakh migrant workers have registered under the scheme.
Awaz was launched in 2017 to make sure correct information assortment of migrant workers and to offer them well being care. Workers registered under the scheme got identification playing cards. The goal group was migrant workers between 18 and 60 years working in numerous sectors.
Ernakulam has the best enrolment of about 1.15 lakh adopted by Thiruvananthapuram (63,788), Kozhikode (44,628) and Thrissur (41,900).
Under the scheme, labourers who be part of the scheme are supplied free remedy value â‚ą15,000 from authorities hospitals in the State in addition to empanelled personal hospitals. Along with medical insurance, accident protection can also be supplied.
