The Madhya Pradesh government is all set to implement the path-breaking state police health security scheme, which will entitle 80,000 police personnel, their wives and children to the benefit of free medical treatment up to a maximum of `8 lakh in a financial year.
Talking to this newspaper, state home minister Umashankar Gupta said here on Saturday that a Trust will be formed for running this scheme. The state director-general of police will head the Trust’s managing committee. Mr Gupta said that each police personnel, from constable to the DGP level, will contribute `50 per month towards this scheme. Treatment will be started immediately in identified hospitals and under the government rules, reimbursement against treatment will be made directly by the state government to the Trust being constituted to implement this scheme.
The state home minister said that 30 hospitals in the state and 31 outside the state have been identified for treatment under the scheme. The 30 hospitals that have been linked with this scheme in Madhya Pradesh include Indore’s Bombay Hospital, Synergy Hospital and Hardia Eye Hospital, Bhopal’s Chirayu Hospital, People’s Hospital, Bhopal Memorial and Jawaharlal Hospital & Research Centre, Jabalp-ur’s Bhandari Hospital, Jamdar Hospital, Jabalpur Hospital and National Hospital, Gwalior’s Sahara Hospital, Birla Hospital and Cancer Hospital, Ujjain’s R.D. Gardi Medical College and Hospital, Apex Hospital at Dewas, CHL Jain Diwakar Hospital at Ratlam, Sharda Hospital at Khargone, Kamla Jain Hospital at Mandsaur, Go-mabai Hosital at Neemuch, Prakash Hospital in Khandwa, Arihant Hospital at Itarsi, Nahar Nursing Home at Chhindwara, Mission Hospital Padhar in Betul district and Birla Hospital at Satna.
The identified hospitals outside the state include New Delhi’s AIIMS, J.B. Pant Hospital, Escorts and Apollo Hospital among others.