The Chief Ministers’ Urban Health Programme of Chhattisgarh, introduced for the first time in the country, will be a model scheme of the country. Now, the central Government is also planning to implement the scheme, said Chhattisgarh health Minister Amar Agrawal.
Addressing a health camp organized under the Snjeevni Kosh Yojana at Bilaspur, the Agrawal said that Chhattisgarh was the first State that gives health security along with food security. The Minister distributed grant worth Rs 20,000 each to 410 women health societies formed under the Chief Ministers’ Urban Health Programme and medicine kits to the urban Mitanins.
Agrawal said that the Sanjeevni Kosh Yojana, the new scheme introduced in the State, has been started from Bilaspur. Under this scheme, now, financial assistance for treatment of serious diseases like heart, kidney, cancer, head injury etc would be given to the BPl and the chief Minister food security scheme cardholder families.
He said that at first, 13 diseases were included in the scheme, but now, the facility has been extended for the treatment of 30 serious diseases. To extend this health facility to all the needy people, health check-up camps were being organised, he added.
The Minister said that the patients selected after screening at urban hospitals at different wards were again checked at the camp and out of them 216 were marked. The State Government would bear all the expenses of their treatment, he added.
The health Minister distributed medicine kits to the Mitanins selected under the scheme. Now they will go door-to-door in the urban slums and will distribute medicines to the sick people there.
Health director Dr Kamalpreet Singh shed light on the objectives of the
camp. 439 patients have registered in the camp out of which 216 patients afflicted with different serious diseases have been selected and were sanctioned amount from the Sanjeevni Kosh.