Efforts to provide corporate medicare for TS staff at govt hospitals

   Minister Jogu Ramanna gets his BP checked at RIMS,Adilabad. 

State government is putting in efforts to provide corporate medical treatment to the government employees and their family members and also pensioners at government hospitals under Employees health scheme (cashless medical treatment) in Telangana state. The health scheme was formally launched at RIMS, Adilabad on Friday.  

Medical treatment will be given to nearly 1,000 ailments out of identified total 1,800 under the scheme at RIMS, Adilabad. The scheme was launched in the respective districts in the state by Ministers. 

As many as 12 super specialty hospitals have refused to provide their services to the patients under this scheme as they were not happy with the fee for medical treatment to various ailments offered under the scheme by the state government.

The government employees and pensioners expressed dissatisfaction over non inclusion 12 super specialty hospitals in the scheme.

Further, they said they were ready to pay their yearly contribution towards the scheme if the super specialty hospitals would be included for providing service under the scheme.

Adilabad RIMS Superintendent Dr A. Ashok said they made special arrangements to treat 25 chronic ailments including cardiac and kidney related problems and added that required medicines for these ailments have been purchased under this scheme and five air condition rooms have been earmarked for the government employees and their family members and pensioners.

He said outpatient services will be provided between 2 pm -4pm even Wednesday and Thursday and added that inpatient services will be launches 15 days later.

Under the scheme, free medical checkup would be done to government employees four times in a year.