On March 26, 2020, two days after enforcing a national lockdown to combat Covid-19, the Central government announced a special insurance sc...
On March 26, 2020, two days after enforcing a national lockdown to combat Covid-19, the Central government announced a special insurance scheme for all healthcare workers fighting the pandemic on the frontlines. The insurance cover promised Rs 50 lakh to the family of every health worker who died of Covid-19 while on duty.
One year later, while India is in the throes of a deadly second wave that has stretched healthcare systems to their limits, this insurance scheme has lapsed. So far, the Centre has not made any announcement about extending the scheme.
The lapsing of the scheme came into focus on Sunday when a letter dated March 24 by Rajesh Bhushan, secretary of the health ministry’s National Health Mission, to chief secretaries of all states and union territories, was circulated on Twitter.
The letter states that the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package Insurance Scheme for Health Workers Fighting Covid-19 came to a conclusion on March 24, 2021, and that those eligible for insurance cover up to that period would be given up to April 24 to submit their claims.
When you thought things can't get any worse, the scheme promising 50 Lakhs to deceased HCWs has ended. Can you clarify this @nsitharaman @drharshvardhan? How many HCWs were compensated while the...
