To ensure treatment and health services to every eligible beneficiary under Sarbat Sehat Bima Yojana (SSBY), Punjab Health and Family Welfare Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu on Thursday directed the State Health Agency to enroll all eligible and target beneficiaries in six months.
Sidhu, during a meeting with the State Health Agency and Department of Food and Supply, Excise and Taxation, Labour and Mandi Board, issued directions to the State Health Agency to enroll all target beneficiaries of SSBY in six months so that beneficiaries covered under respective departments and categories would make eligible to get tertiary health services from the empanelled hospitals.
He emphasized the need to accelerate IEC activities for generating cards of beneficiaries. Around 46 lakhs e-cards had been issued to the beneficiaries so far, he added.
Health Department is going to conduct drive at village level in all districts of the State to intensify the process of generating e-cards and it has been made compulsory for concerned departments that they would arrange the camps to generate e-cards of their eligible beneficiaries and their family members, he said.
The Minister instructed the concerned departments to expedite process of generating e-cards of their respective beneficiaries. He urged the Food and Civil Supply Department that special centres for generating e-cards to be established to cover all beneficiaries in six months.
The Minister also directed the Punjab Mandi Board to organize camps at market committees so as to ensure more and more farmers get registered and are able to avail the cashless health insurance cover of Rs five lakh per family per year.
He also asked the Excise and Taxation Department to initiate the awareness drive for the small traders those are covered under Insurance scheme.
Sidhu reiterated that the State Government has committed to provide quality health services to the people of Punjab at their doorsteps and to achieve this aim, around 784 hospitals had been empanelled under this scheme.