In a New Year bonanza for the residents of Punjab, the Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Thursday gave green signal to the Health department to launch Mukh Mantri Sehat Yojna from the coming month thereby ensuring cashless treatment worth ₹10 lakh to every family in the state. Reviewing a meeting of the Health department here today, CM Bhagwant Singh Mann said Mukh Mantri Sehat Beema Yojna is a step towards providing universal healthcare facilities to people without spending even a penny on it.
“This is a step towards providing universal health care and ensuring that people get cashless treatment worth ₹10 lakh. Punjab will be the first state in the country where every family will be entitled to cashless treatment of up to ₹10 lakh,” he said.
The Chief Minister said that Mukh Mantri Sehat Yojna is a flagship health assurance initiative of the Government of Punjab aimed at providing financial protection and assured access to quality healthcare to all eligible residents of the State. “The scheme is a major step towards universal health coverage, under which each enrolled family is entitled to cashless medical treatment up to ₹10 lakh per year,” he added.
CM Bhagwant Singh Mann noted, “The scheme covers major illnesses, critical care, surgeries, and life-saving treatments at a wide network of empanelled Government and Private hospitals across Punjab and Chandigarh, ensuring equitable access to healthcare services.” The Chief Minister said that the key objective is to ensure cashless and paperless healthcare at empanelled hospitals and to reduce out-of-pocket expenditure on secondary and tertiary healthcare.
“Likewise, it will strengthen equitable access to healthcare services across urban and rural areas and provide timely grievance redressal and beneficiary support through digital platforms,” he added. CM Bhagwant Singh Mann said that all the expenses like Hospitalisation costs, Surgeries and medical procedures, ICU and critical care services, Diagnostics, medicines, and consumables as per approved packages, Pre- and post-hospitalisation expenses and others will be covered under it.
The Chief Minister said that, earlier, a family could avail treatment only up to ₹5 lakh but now this limit has been increased to ₹10 lakh adding that every citizen of Punjab will be entitled to free healthcare, whether they are government employees or pensioners adding that there will be no income limit under this scheme.
“Under this scheme, any citizen can avail free treatment at any government hospital or empanelled private hospital adding that now, no citizen of Punjab will have to forgo treatment due to financial constraints. The Health department to make the necessary arrangements for the smooth launch of this scheme for the well being of people,” said CM Bhagwant Singh Mann.