Health facility License To Be Cancelled If Well being Playing cards No longer Authorised: Mamata Banerjee
Some hospitals have refused to simply accept the ‘Swasthya Sathi’ playing cards, she mentioned (Record)
Kolkata:
West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday warned non-public hospitals and nursing properties of license cancellation if they do not want to recognize her govt’s Swasthya Sathi well being card from sufferers.
She drew parallels between her govt’s well being programme and the centre’s “Ayushman Bharat”, announcing the Union govt runs its scheme on 60:40 ratio, whilst the state absolutely finances other folks underneath “Swasthya Sathi”.
“If any individual (non-public hospitals and nursing properties) refuses to supply healthcare amenities underneath the ‘Swasthya Sathi’ scheme, the federal government has the ability to cancel its license. This well being scheme is for the deficient. No person will have to harass the deficient,” Ms Banerjee mentioned, urging other folks to hotel a police criticism within the face of any harassment.
Some reviews have prompt that some hospitals have refused to simply accept the ‘Swasthya Sathi‘ playing cards — a well being scheme introduced in 2016 to supply a canopy of as much as Rs five lakh in line with annum to eligible households for secondary and tertiary care.
With a watch on 2021 meeting polls, then again, Ms Banerjee, in November 2020, prolonged the cashless well being receive advantages to each citizen within the state.
“There are lots of top-notch hospitals that have refused to simply accept the federal government’s ‘Swasthya Sathi’ well being card on events. We need to inform them that they don’t have an choice. Even small nursing properties within the districts, too, have to simply accept the playing cards,” she mentioned.
“We also are enlisting smaller nursing properties within the districts underneath this well being scheme in order that voters can avail amenities with reference to their place of abode. We might additionally discuss to them, and the state’s leader secretary will meet them in order that nobody is burdened,” Ms Banerjee added.
