New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday asked the center to sort out the disputes about the inclusion of doctors and health workers who had lost their lives fought against Covid-19 in private clinics, dispensaries, and non-recognized hospitals in the insurance scheme that promised Rs 50 Lakh for their families.
Judge’s bench D Y Chandrachud and a Bopanna said, “You have to finish it.
You sit with an insurance company because the monetary component is also involved and the relevant official in the Ministry of Health finds a solution.
The main objective of the central policy is the welfare of people and it should not be selective.” Bench It was a lawyer General Tushar Mehta that it was a problem concerning many health workers and had to be handled quickly.
“Previously a woman, a partner, a doctor, had died of Covid …
While he treated patients at his clinic.
Then some (organization ) Health care workers have come before the court with their requests for exceptions.
We must see it will hear this problem after three weeks “, the bench said.
Mehta convinced the bench he would look into this matter and try to finish it.
On October 19, the top court had issued a notification to the center on Plea and asked for it.
To explain why there are exceptions to private health care workers who have been against Pandemi.
It is said that the prime facie the purpose of this scheme is to provide social security to health professionals considering the risks facing them when fighting in public and private institutions.
It is said that this problem is very important and dealt with social security health professionals who have made their services during a pandemic.
The top court has asked the lawyer General to help court in this matter.
One Pradeep Arora and the others have transferred the upper court against the order of March 9, the Bombay High Court who has argued that private hospital staff are not entitled to benefit under insurance schemes unless their services are requested by the state government or the center.
The request was submitted in the High Court by one Kiran Bhaskar surgade, who had lost her husband to Covid-19, a doctor who used to run his personal clinic in Thane, Maharashtra, last year.
Insurance companies have rejected their claims based on the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan insurance policy (PMGKP) on the grounds that her husband’s clinic was not recognized as a Covid-19 hospital.
PMGKP was announced in March last year, and the coverage has been extended since then.
Launched to provide a safety net to health workers to ensure that if there are difficulties because of Covid-19, their families are treated.
RS 50 Lakh insurance cover is provided for health care workers under the PMKGP scheme that has become a safety net for the dependents of Covid fighters who lost their lives in infection.