New Delhi: Supreme court On Friday, the Center asked the Center not to include doctors and health workers battling Kovid-19 in private clinics, dispensaries and unrecognized hospitals in the Centre’s insurance scheme, which promised to provide Rs 50 lakh to their families. resolve the dispute.
A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and AS Bopanna said, ‘You should settle this. You sit with the insurance companies as there is a monetary component also involved and the concerned officials of the health department find out the solution. The ultimate aim of the Centre’s policy is the welfare of the people and it should not be selective.”
Bench told the Solicitor General Tushar Mehta That this is an issue that concerns many healthcare workers and should be dealt with expeditiously.
“First it was a woman whose wife, a doctor, had died covid…while he was treating patients in his clinic. Later many (organisations) of health care workers came before the court with their arguments against the boycott. You should look into that. We will hear the matter after three weeks.
Mehta assured the bench that he would look into the matter and try to resolve it.
On October 19, the apex court had issued notice to the Center on the plea and asked it to explain why private health care workers battling the pandemic were excluded.
it was said that Prima facie The objective of the scheme is to provide social Security Considering the risks faced by health professionals in public and private institutions while battling COVID.
It had said that the issue is of great importance and pertains to social security of health professionals who have rendered their services during the pandemic.
The top court had asked the solicitor general to assist the court in the matter.
One Pradeep Arora and others have moved the apex court against the Bombay High Court’s March 9 order, which held that private hospital employees were not entitled to benefits under the insurance scheme, unless their services were rendered by the state or central government. Not demanded.
One filed a petition in the High Court Kiran Bhaskar Surgade, who lost her husband to Covid-19, a doctor who ran his private clinic in Maharashtra’s Thane last year.
The insurance company had rejected his claim Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package (PMGKP) insurance policy on the grounds that her husband’s clinic was not recognized as a COVID-19 hospital.
The PMGKP was announced in March last year and has since been expanded. It was launched to provide a protective cover to healthcare workers to ensure that their families are taken care of in case of any adversity due to COVID-19.
Under the PMKGP scheme, an insurance cover of Rs 50 lakh is provided to the health care workers, which has become a protective cover for the dependents of the COVID warriors who lost their lives due to the infection.
A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and AS Bopanna said, ‘You should settle this. You sit with the insurance companies as there is a monetary component also involved and the concerned officials of the health department find out the solution. The ultimate aim of the Centre’s policy is the welfare of the people and it should not be selective.”
Bench told the Solicitor General Tushar Mehta That this is an issue that concerns many healthcare workers and should be dealt with expeditiously.
“First it was a woman whose wife, a doctor, had died covid…while he was treating patients in his clinic. Later many (organisations) of health care workers came before the court with their arguments against the boycott. You should look into that. We will hear the matter after three weeks.
Mehta assured the bench that he would look into the matter and try to resolve it.
On October 19, the apex court had issued notice to the Center on the plea and asked it to explain why private health care workers battling the pandemic were excluded.
it was said that Prima facie The objective of the scheme is to provide social Security Considering the risks faced by health professionals in public and private institutions while battling COVID.
It had said that the issue is of great importance and pertains to social security of health professionals who have rendered their services during the pandemic.
The top court had asked the solicitor general to assist the court in the matter.
One Pradeep Arora and others have moved the apex court against the Bombay High Court’s March 9 order, which held that private hospital employees were not entitled to benefits under the insurance scheme, unless their services were rendered by the state or central government. Not demanded.
One filed a petition in the High Court Kiran Bhaskar Surgade, who lost her husband to Covid-19, a doctor who ran his private clinic in Maharashtra’s Thane last year.
The insurance company had rejected his claim Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package (PMGKP) insurance policy on the grounds that her husband’s clinic was not recognized as a COVID-19 hospital.
The PMGKP was announced in March last year and has since been expanded. It was launched to provide a protective cover to healthcare workers to ensure that their families are taken care of in case of any adversity due to COVID-19.
Under the PMKGP scheme, an insurance cover of Rs 50 lakh is provided to the health care workers, which has become a protective cover for the dependents of the COVID warriors who lost their lives due to the infection.
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