KAPURTHALA:100627 cards generated, out of 3.76 lakh to provide free treatment upto Rs. 5 lakh .Urges people to visit Sewa kendras, Market committees, CHCs , labour office for E- Cards .With an aim to enable the all needy ones for free treatment upto Rs. 5 lakh , the district administration has chalked out a comprehensive plan under which a massive drive has been started to cover all the 109737 families by making 3.76 lakh E- Cards in next 20 days.
In this welfare scheme farmers, small traders , construction workers, BPL families having Ration card, Journalists having yellow and accreditation cards along with their families to be covered.
The scheme also offered treatment of serious diseases as well as cashless treatment in MRI and CT scan.
Presiding over a meeting to speed up the Sarbat sehat bima yojna cards after taking part in the vedio conference with the Principal secretary Health, Deputy commissioner Deepti Uppal said that " the district administration has fixed the target to make 3.76 lakh card in next 20 days, under which free treatment to be provided to beneficiaries in all Government and private approved hospitals in the district.
Deputy commissioner also made it clear that the people may call the concerned SDMs to sort out issued relating that.
She asked the officials of Food supply, constructions workers welfare board, Mandi board and excise department to enhance the efforts to meet the target in minimum time as till now the district have witnessed genration of 100627 cards.
She said that a district route plan has been framed in special focus to target those villages where less than 15 E- Cards have been issued besides mobilizing beneficiaries through ASHA workers , anganwari workers , BDPOs and CDPOs.
Deputy commissioner has also aksed the district mandi officer to start a drive by making phone calls to remaining 9000 farmers to come farward for E- Cards at Market committee offices at kapurthala, sultanpur lodhi, Phagwara, Bholath and Dhilwan where special points have been set up by the CSC and Vidal companies to generate cards.
In the meeting the assistance medical commissioner informed that the people would also be able to make cards at civil hospital and all CHCs from 9 AM to 5 PM daily.
Besides that as per the instructions of the Punjab Government the Tier-1 sewa kendras of the district , which is at District administrative complex has already started the process to genrate E- Cards under sarbat sehat bima yojna. To facilitate the people further , the sewa kendras at sub division level in Phagwara, Sultanpur lodhi and Bholath would start this people friendly service from Feburary 22 , followed by the all sewa kendras including at village level from Feburary 26.
For the construction workers registered with the Punjab construction workers welfare board , special camps was also started at labour office , Hamira road near DIC kapurthala. It may be mentioned here that more than 5000 workers would be covered under that category.
Terming it a flagship program of the Punjab Government for the welfare of the masees , the Deputy commissioner kapurthala Deepti Uppal has started the progress of E- cards geneation on regularly basis besides appointing officers like Assistant medical commissioner and ADC D Mr SP Angra to monitor it on daily basis.(EOM)