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Senior citizens seek health insurance at low premium

Staff Reporter

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu Senior Citizens and Pensioners Welfare Association has urged Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss to direct insurance companies to provide health insurance at low premium for senior citizens.

In a press release here, the association State General Secretary, S. M. Chellaswamy, also urged the Minister to strengthen primary health centres to provide health cover to elders. He said that mobile health vans should be launched to reach out to the elderly who are unable to move and geriatric wards should be set up in medical colleges.

The association also thanked Mr. Ramadoss for sanctioning the national centre for ageing to Tamil Nadu.

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