The Government of India has decided to provide Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package, an insurance scheme cover of Rs 50 lakh for 22.12 lakh public healthcare providers for 90 days including community health workers, who may come into direct contact of COVID-19 patients. They are at high risk of being impacted by this.
New India Assurance Company Limited is providing this insurance cover. Private hospital staff, volunteers, local urban bodies, daily wage, ad hoc, outsourced, contractual, retired employees, and staff requisitioned by the states’ or central hospitals or autonomous hospitals of central, state or UTs, AIIMS and INIs/ hospitals of central ministries, will be covered under this scheme.