Bhubaneswar: The Odisha authorities has offered providers value Rs 1191 crore to over 5.45 lakh beneficiaries of its flagship well being profit scheme Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana (BSKY) since September, final 12 months.

This was revealed when Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik took an in depth overview assembly on BSKY on Wednesday. He expressed satisfaction over the functioning of the well being profit scheme.

The Chief Minister talked about that the beneficiaries of this scheme have given good suggestions on ‘Mo Sarkar’ platform. Naveen additionally hailed the BSKY as an necessary social safety scheme of the federal government which offers high quality well being care at freed from price to the sufferers.

BSKY Smart Health Card have been given to 96.5 lakh households protecting over 3.3 crore individuals. BSKY beneficiaries are offered healthcare in empanelled non-public hospitals for an annual well being protection of Rs 5 lakh per household and extra Rs 5 lakh for the ladies family members after exhaustion of the preliminary restrict.

At current there are a complete of 500 non-public hospitals inside and outdoors the state that are empanelled underneath BSKY. Out of those 500 non-public hospitals, 98 are exterior the state, which embody hospitals of nationwide reputation like Tata Memorial hospitals, CMC Vellore, Sri Shankara Cancer Hospital Bangalore, Narayan Hrudalaya hospitals, Fortis Healthcare hospitals, Apollo hospitals and so on.

Empanelled hospitals exterior the State now cowl 17 States of the nation and are offering well being care to all BSKY card holders all through India. More than 76  beneficiaries availed the therapy in CMC Vellore and 979 no of beneficiaries availed the therapy in Tata memorial Hospital Mumbai.

After launch of BSKY Smart Health Card from September 1, 2021 the whole beneficiaries are 5,45,339 and providers offered touched value Rs 1191 crores. The state authorities has borne your entire price of well being care offered by empanelled non-public hospitals. Out of those, 23,119 beneficiaries availed providers value Rs 64.25 crores in empaneled hospitals exterior the State.

Of the whole 5,45,339 sufferers benefitted, 2.5 lakh have availed healthcare as much as Rs 5 lakh and 225 ladies have availed healthcare past Rs 5 lakh with 27 ladies sufferers getting healthcare of Rs 10 lakh every.

Presently the scheme advantages about 73,000 sufferers every month in empanelled non-public hospitals alone, for which the federal government bears a value of Rs 165 crore month-to-month.

Call again is completed to all BSKY beneficiaries present process therapy at empanelled non-public hospitals and presently the affected person satisfaction degree about providers offered underneath BSKY is 97%. At the empaneled hospitals, Swasthya Mitras have been deployed to assist the sufferers for admission and different providers.