Nagpur, November twenty one Congress president Sonia Gandhi thursday launched the Maharashtra government’s pet theme, Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayi Arogya Yojana (RGJAY), which can give a novel insurance theme for the poor.
Gandhi aforesaid the Congress-led government at the centre was committed to the welfare of the someone and therefore the insurance theme can profit the poor, particularly rural girls and youngsters.
The RGJAY aims to supply free and quality essential treatment in each government and personal hospitals to folks below the personal income and higher than personal income, with associate annual family financial gain of around Rs.100,000.
The authorities had launched the project on a pilot basis in July 2012 in eight of the state’s thirty five districts, benefiting around 5 million families.
The government pays the premium of Rs.333 per family for an insurance theme of upto Rs.150,000 and provides treatment possibility for 972 surgeries, therapies, procedures and 121 follow-up processes.
The RGJAY intends to hide quite 2 crore of the state’s twelve crore population within the next few years and touch a lot of later.
Besides obtaining free treatment, patients are going to be entitled to post-medical care, medicines and come journey expenses from their place of residence to hospitals, Gandhi said.
She aforesaid that henceforward, poor girls particularly in rural areas wouldn’t ought to hide their ailments to avoid burdening their husbands with medical bills and treatment expenses.
Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, Union Minister and Nationalist Congress Party leader Praful Patel, state Congress president Manikrao Thakre and Health Minister Suresh Shetty were gift at the rally.
Gandhi additionally met and spoke to the primary seventy eight beneficiaries of the theme gift at the venue.
She urged all poor folks to require full advantage of the RGJAY as medical expenses ar currently on the far side the reach of the people.
Gandhi additionally appreciated the state government’s planned “Jeevan Amrut” theme below that impoverished folks will order for blood throughout medical emergencies by merely business a fee range.