The cashless health cover for state government employees and pensioners started on January 1
Expressing unhappiness over lesser number of hospitals being empanelled in the recently launched State Government Health Scheme (SGHS) and other anomalies in the procedural issues in the scheme, the state government employee associations have demanded that their suggestions should be included in the scheme. In the SGHS launched on January 1 this year, cashless treatment is provided to the employees and pensioners of Uttarakhand government. The scheme was discussed in detail in a meeting of the high power committee of the State Employees Joint Council Uttarakhand on Wednesday. The general secretary of the council, Arun Pandey said in the meeting that it was discussed that the number of hospitals empanelled in the scheme is very less. The multispecialty hospitals like Max hospital Dehradun, Fortis and Kailash hospitals are not included in the scheme. Similarly the Mendanta hospital Gurugram, Gurudev Hospital Rudrapur and others are not providing medical facilities to the employees under the scheme. Pandey further added that many empanelled hospitals are hesitating to provide better care and facility due to the less package offered under the scheme. In the meeting the employee leaders asserted that the employees are facing many problems in the scheme and the state government should convene a meeting of different employee associations to discuss the issue. Pandey said that the suggestions proposed by the employee associations should be included in the scheme. He said that a website of the scheme should be launched so that all information regarding the cashless scheme is readily available to the employees.
The meeting was attended by Thakur Prahlad Singh, Nandkishore Tripathi, Shakti Prasad Bhatt and others.
Thursday, 28 January 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
