Who are eligible to get assistance
| It is applicable to persons below the poverty line, person with annual family income not exceeding Rs.40,000/- in rural area and Rs.60,000/- in urban areas. Either BPL card / AAY card or annual income certificate issued by concerned Tahasildar will be accepted for determining the eligibility. |
| RSBY card holder is also eligible under this scheme. |
| An unknown accident victim, patients duly referred from registered destitute home / orphanage / mental asylum / Child care Institutions are also eligible for assistance under the scheme subject to citing sufficient reason thereof for recommending the patient under the scheme. |
| The Central Government / State Government / PSU employees are not eligible. |
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Assistance will be available only to patients undergoing treatment as in-patient in any of the Govt./Empanelled private hospitals. However this will not restrict :
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| Assistance will not be available for reimbursing the expenditure incurred by the applicant. The date of application seeking financial assistance should be during the course of treatment. |
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Re-imbursement of medical expenditure already incurred for treatment / operation shall not be permissible. |
| Diseases of common nature and disease for which treatment is available free of cost under other health programmes / schemes will not be covered. |
| Assistance will normally not be provided where medical coverage under ESI, CGHS or any other scheme is available or where there is a provision for reimbursement of cost of medicine. |
| Any person shall be assisted once in a financial year. Repeat assistance for the same ailment shall not be allowed in any case. However, this will not be a bar for receiving the treatment assistance in phased manner for diseases like Cancer, Collagen disease, Renal failure etc. |
