India
Today: Mumbai: Tuesday, 11 May 2021.
Under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package (PMGKP), an insurance scheme for healthcare workers fighting Covid-19, only 27% applicants have received the insurance money.
RTI activist Jeetendra Ghadge of The Young Whistleblowers NGO had filed an RTI and got to know that Maharashtra government had sent total of 210 applications to the central government out of which just 58 cases were paid the insurance amount. The figure is just 27% of the total applications sent from Maharashtra.
Ghadge had filed this RTI in November. However, neither the central government nor the insurance company, replied to his queries.
Only the Maharashtra government replied to Ghadge’s queries. Ghadge had sought district-wise details of the applications received and forwarded by Maharashtra government.
The RTI reply, which was received by him from Maharashtra, said Pune had sent a total of 47 applications whereas Mumbai has sent only 38 applications even though the mega city had seen the highest number of casualties.
However, when it came to the approval, only three cases from Pune were been approved while just 22 cases were approved from Mumbai.
Ghadge says: "The healthcare staff is taking serious risk while taking care of us. Unfortunately, we are letting them down by delaying process of getting this claims approved. Besides only the Central government scheme covers the health workers while the state government covers other Covid warriors. It's important to boost the morale of our health care workers by giving them financial security. I hope the government takes notice of these figures.”
PMGKP was implemented with effect from 30 March 2020, initially for a period of 90 days to provide an insurance cover of Rs 50 lakh to the healthcare workers fighting the pandemic. Later, the duration of the scheme was extended up to March 24, 2021. It was again extended on April 20, 2021 for one year due to the second wave.
The data, when analysed profession-wise, shows that only 10 out of 19 doctors' applications have been approved. Surprisingly, only one application for a doctor, which was sent from Mumbai, got rejected.
IMA has stated that a total of 74 Doctors from Maharashtra have lost their lives due to Covid-19.
Further, from Maharashtra, only 3 out of 9 nurses have received the compensation whereas only 3 out of 6 Asha workers have received the money.
Under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package (PMGKP), an insurance scheme for healthcare workers fighting Covid-19, only 27% applicants have received the insurance money.
RTI activist Jeetendra Ghadge of The Young Whistleblowers NGO had filed an RTI and got to know that Maharashtra government had sent total of 210 applications to the central government out of which just 58 cases were paid the insurance amount. The figure is just 27% of the total applications sent from Maharashtra.
Ghadge had filed this RTI in November. However, neither the central government nor the insurance company, replied to his queries.
Only the Maharashtra government replied to Ghadge’s queries. Ghadge had sought district-wise details of the applications received and forwarded by Maharashtra government.
The RTI reply, which was received by him from Maharashtra, said Pune had sent a total of 47 applications whereas Mumbai has sent only 38 applications even though the mega city had seen the highest number of casualties.
However, when it came to the approval, only three cases from Pune were been approved while just 22 cases were approved from Mumbai.
Ghadge says: "The healthcare staff is taking serious risk while taking care of us. Unfortunately, we are letting them down by delaying process of getting this claims approved. Besides only the Central government scheme covers the health workers while the state government covers other Covid warriors. It's important to boost the morale of our health care workers by giving them financial security. I hope the government takes notice of these figures.”
PMGKP was implemented with effect from 30 March 2020, initially for a period of 90 days to provide an insurance cover of Rs 50 lakh to the healthcare workers fighting the pandemic. Later, the duration of the scheme was extended up to March 24, 2021. It was again extended on April 20, 2021 for one year due to the second wave.
The data, when analysed profession-wise, shows that only 10 out of 19 doctors' applications have been approved. Surprisingly, only one application for a doctor, which was sent from Mumbai, got rejected.
IMA has stated that a total of 74 Doctors from Maharashtra have lost their lives due to Covid-19.
Further, from Maharashtra, only 3 out of 9 nurses have received the compensation whereas only 3 out of 6 Asha workers have received the money.
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