State Health Minister Surendra Singh Negi has said all the eligible patients should be given the benefit of Mukhyamantri Swasthya Bima Yojna (MSBY) in the hospitals of the State.
While taking a review meeting with the senior health department officials at Vidhan Sabha on Wednesday, Negi said that MSBY is being implemented with an aim to provide medical facilities to poor people and their families. He asked the officials to ensure that the health cards should be made available to all the eligible persons. Negi said that in case of absence of cards the eligible persons should be given the benefit of the scheme by obtaining a copy of ration card or Voter ID card.
Negi said that screening health camps should be provided at 40 blocks of the state on pilot basis to provide health facility to the common people.
He suggested that surgical camps should be linked with the screening camps. Negi asked the officials to ensure that 350 screening camps are held within next nine months. The health minister said that the work on Kotdwar base hospital is 70 percent complete; he ordered that the money for the hospital should be released in the supplementary budget.
The meeting was attended by the Principal secretary health Om Prakash, secretary health Bhupendra Kaur, additional secretary Vimi Sachdeva, Project Director NRHM, Nirak Kherwal and Director General Health services Dr R P Bhatt.