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Smart cards handed over to 560 insurance beneficiaries
Special Correspondent
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Government to pay the entire premium, says M.K. Stalin
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CHENNAI: Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin here on Thursday distributed smart cards to 560 beneficiaries registered under the Kalaignar Health Insurance Scheme for Life Saving Treatments.
Addressing the gathering, he said the scheme would enable the poor to obtain treatment at government as well as private hospitals for 51 types of serious ailments. The government would foot the entire premium of Rs.517 crore on behalf of the beneficiaries.
About one crore families would be benefited and each insured for up to Rs.1 lakh. So far, 81.97 lakh people had been enrolled under the scheme.
Of them, 28.84 lakh families were given smart cards. About 8,000 people had undergone treatment.
In Chennai district alone, 2.80 lakh people had been enrolled.
Collector V. Shobana, in her welcome address, said the government had conducted special camps for fishermen and the handicapped for enrolment. Similar camps would be held to enrol members of the various welfare boards.
Mayor M.Subramanian, presiding over the function, said that the scheme would help the poor to get specialised treatments for serious ailments, hitherto unaffordable for them.
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