Prepare rules, regulations regarding MP Police Health Security Scheme soon : Gupta

Bhopal: Home Minister Shri Umashankar Gupta has directed to prepare rules and regulations pertaining to Madhya Pradesh Police Health Security Scheme at the earliest. Shri Gupta was chairing a meeting at Mantralaya here today where police constables’ promotion and increase in house rent allowance were also discussed. Indore DIG Shri A. Sai Manohar gave information about the proposed health security scheme through a power-point presentation.
It is noteworthy that Madhya Pradesh Police Health Security Scheme is being chalked out with a view to making available timely treatment to police officers and employees and freeing them from difficulties in obtaining medical reimbursement. Proposal to implement this scheme has been made after studying similar schemes prevalent in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
A trust will be constituted for running the scheme. Director General of Police will be chairman of the trust’s managing committee. It will have one vice-chairman, one secretary and 12 members. Under the scheme, each police personnel will have to give contributory share of Rs. 50 per month. There are about 80 thousand police personnel in Madhya Pradesh. Under the scheme, every member will be eligible for treatment worth upto Rs. eight lakh in a financial year for self, wife and children. Treatment will be started immediately in identified hospitals if anyone of these falls ill. As per government rules, reimbursement against treatment will be made directly by the government to the trust.
As many 30 hospitals in the state and 31 outside the state have been identified for treatment under the scheme. State’s 30 identified hospitals include Indore’s Bombay Hospital, Synergy Hospital and Hardia Eye Hospital, Bhopal’s Chirayu Hospital, People’s Hospital, Bhopal Memorial and Jawaharlal Hospital & Research Centre, Jabalpur’s Bhandari Hospital, Jamdar Hospital, Jabalpur Hospital and National Hospital, Gwalior’s Sahara Hospital, Birla Hospital and Cancer Hospital, Ujjain’s R.D. Gardi Medical College and Hospital, Apex Hospital at Dewas, CHL Jain Diwakar Hospital at Ratlam, Sharda Hospital at Khargone, Kamla Jain Hospital at Mandsaur, Gomabai Hosital at Neemuch, Prakash Hospital in Khandwa, Arihant Hospital at Itarsi, Nahar Nursing Home at Chhindwara, Mission Hospital Padhar in Betul district and Birla Hospital at Satna.
The 31 identified hospitals outside the state include New Delhi’s AIIMS, J.B. Pant Hospital, Escorts and Apollo hospitals, Mumbai’s Jaslok, Tata Memorial, Nanavati, Bombay and Lilawati hospitals, Chennai’s Apollo Hospital, Pandaliya Cardio-theropic Foundation and Sankara Nethralaya, Hyderabad’s Apollo Hospital, Nizam Institute and Medicine Care Asian Institute, Lucknow’s PGI, Baroda’s Bhailal Ameen Hospital, Ahmedabad’s Sal Hospital, Gurgaon’s Medanta, Jaipur’s Mahaveer, Nagpur’s Anreja Hospital, Yocard, Arij and Mahatma Eye hospital, Faridabad’s Fortis, Mudrai’s Arvind Eye Care, Bengaluru’s Jimhans, Narayan and Colombia hospitals.
Additional Chief Secretary Home Shri I.N.S. Dani, Director General of Police Shri Nandan Dube and other officers were present on the occasion.