New Delhi: In view of the prevailing COVID scenario within the nation, the federal government has prolonged Insurance scheme for frontline health workers for one other six months.
This was selected final Friday (May 30), after Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a gathering to evaluate the functioning of various empowered teams by way of video convention.
A press release stated Modi has additionally requested officers to discover how volunteers from civil society may be utilised to reduce the strain on healthcare sector by being drafted in non-specialised duties, as the federal government appears to additional step up its response to combating COVID-19.
In a tweet, Modi stated, “Chaired a meeting during which the working of the various empowered groups was reviewed. These empowered groups are looking into various aspects of COVID relief and helping people.”
Chaired a gathering throughout which the working of the assorted empowered teams was reviewed. These empowered teams are wanting into varied points of COVID aid and serving to folks. https://t.co/5aWpwRbOEy
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) April 30, 2021
Under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package, the launch of ‘Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package: Insurance Scheme for Health Workers Fighting COVID-19’ was introduced final 12 months.
It supplied an insurance cowl of Rs. 50 lakh for ninety (90) days to a complete of round 22.12 lakh public healthcare suppliers, together with neighborhood health workers, who might must be in direct contact and care of COVID-19 sufferers and who could also be liable to being impacted by this. It may also embrace unintentional lack of life on account of contracting COVID-19.
The insurance supplied below this scheme could be over and above some other insurance cowl being availed of by the beneficiary, the federal government had famous.
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