Odisha CM launches well being card at Malkangiri

By Express News Service

MALKANGIRI/BHUBANESWAR: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday, August 20, 2021, launched distribution of good well being playing cards below Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana at Malkangiri. Sukri Dhangda Majhi from the Bonda neighborhood was the primary recipient of the good well being card. Using this card, beneficiaries can avail high quality healthcare companies in 200 hospital chains of the nation together with Odisha.

Launching the initiative, the Chief Minister mentioned that about 3.5 crore folks from 96 lakh households within the State will probably be benefited from this initiative. From Malkangiri alone, 1.55 lakh households will probably be benefited. While households can avail therapy prices upto Rs 5 lakh each year, for ladies family members, it’s as much as Rs 10 lakh. An individual might go to a hospital solely with the cardboard and avail all of the remedies with none problem, he mentioned.

The Chief Minister mentioned the initiative will convey a paradigm shift within the healthcare companies in India, the place a affected person will get one of the best healthcare with none expense. Describing the initiative as historic, the Chief Minister mentioned that well being is vital for everybody and linked with the funds of the household. “When anyone from the family is ill, there is stress and tension on how to arrange money required for treatment. Many sell their land, some others borrow or some stop educating their children,” he mentioned, including, the good well being card will now maintain the therapy with out placing any burden on the members of the family.

Stating that the State authorities will now spend cash for the therapy, the Chief Minister mentioned that individuals can save their cash and spend it for training of their youngsters or different works within the household. The Chief Minister mentioned that well being care is imparted in all government-run hospitals freed from price. He mentioned that each one services together with dialysis, chemotherapy and totally different exams at the moment are obtainable in authorities hospitals.

Minister for Health and Family Welfare Naba Kishore Das, Minister of State for Sports Tusharkanti Behera and Nabarangpur MP Ramesh Majhi additionally addressed the perform. The Chief Minister had beforehand launched the one rupee rice scheme from Malkangiri, which is without doubt one of the remotest districts of Odisha.