Gandaki, May 4: The Ministry of Health of Gandaki Province has paid the health insurance scheme premium for 7,061 people including people with disabilities and kidney patients. Of these, 5,946 are PWDs and their families and 431 are families of kidney patients, and 382 are conflict victims.
Similarly, 28 people injured in the people’s movement, 63 families of martyrs and enforced disappeared people, and 211 working journalists in Kaski have been provided with free health insurance, shared Jiva Lal Kharel, coordinator of the Health Insurance Board Gandaki Province Office.
In Gandaki Province, 161,935 senior citizens, 2,311 HIV-infected families, 5,630 people with severe disabilities and their families, 90 families with a leprosy patient, 57 tuberculosis patients, and 4,642 female health volunteer families are affiliated with health insurance scheme with the government’s support.
Coordinator Kharel said that so far, 444,776 families in the province have joined the health insurance program, which is 67.01 per cent of the total number of families in the province.
Out of the total insured, the number of service users is 738,232, or 54.04 per cent. The number of families renewing insurance scheme is 75 percent. A total of 725 registered assistants are active across the province for health insurance.
There are 61 service provider hospitals and medical facilities registered with health insurance scheme in 47 local levels of the province. Free health insurance is provided to senior citizens over seventy years of age, seriously ill, severely disabled and families with poor identity cards.
A family of up to five people receives treatment services of up to Rs. 100,000 for an annual insurance of Rs. 3,500. If there are more than five people in the family, there is a provision to add Rs. 700 per member.
