NCP chief says empanelled hospitals decline to entertain patients
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Addressing the media, D’Souza said the two hospitals at Vaddem and Chicalim, which have been empanelled by the government for the scheme, have declined to entertain patients on the medical insurance scheme, as they are yet to sign MoU.
D’Souza also questioned the tenure of the government’s medical insurance policy.
“In any insurance sector, a policy is taken for a year, but surprisingly the BJP government has started the medical insurance policy on September 1 and it expires on March 31, which is barely six months. If the government was so serious, it should have started the policy on April 1, 2017, so that the policy could be renewed by March 31,” he added.
D’Souza claimed the government simply wanted to lure voters by hurriedly introducing the scheme just before the 2017 assembly elections.
Parshuram Shetye, general secretary of Vasco NCP block, said the government had failed to create awareness about the scheme among
the citizens.
“Instead of making people waste their time, energy and money in filling the forms, the government should have availed that data from their Aadhaar Card and sent health cards directly to their residences by speed post,” said Shetye.
