State government employees and pensioners can now avail cashless emergency treatment and other cashless treatments of incurable diseases. They can do so as Uttar Pradesh Medical and Health Department has started ‘Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay State Employee Cashless Medical Scheme’. This was stated by CEO, National Health Insurance Scheme, Alok Kumar Mitra in lucknow on Monday.
Under the scheme, the process of online registration of state government employees and pensioners was being done on the ‘website www.upsects.in’.
Mitra said that beneficiaries themselves could print their ‘State Health Card’ after completing online registration on the basis of which they could avail cashless treatment facility in hospitals empanelled under the scheme.
The cashless treatment includes treatments during emergency and all types of heart, kidney and liver diseases along with knee replacement etc. The cashless treatment facility will be available in Government Medical Colleges, Medical Institutes and C.G.H.S. and empanelled private hospitals.
The CEO said that before launching the scheme, a list of empanelled hospitals and date of the scheme’s commencement will be issued and will also be available on the scheme’s website. The scheme is likely to be launched in February 2018.
