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Patients were not getting benefit even after adding 17 new diseases in Chief Minister's Critical Illness Treatment Scheme, Kunal took initiative, patients got benefit
According to Article 39A of the Health Department, only cancer, kidney transplant, severe liver disease and acid attack were treated in the earlier empaneled hospitals under the Chief Minister’s Serious Illness Treatment Scheme. Now 17 other diseases have been added to it by the government.
But despite being passed by the cabinet, due to non-issuance of letter related to departmental new rules and MoU, the listed hospitals were not able to treat the added diseases.
This came to the notice of Jharkhand State BJP spokesperson cum founder of Namya Foundation Kunal Sharangi when the family members of Srinivas Sahu, a brain hemorrhage patient, resident of Karandih, undergoing treatment at Apollo Hospital, Bhubaneswar, sought help from Namya Foundation members Nidhi Kedia and Sumanta Hota.In fact, when members of the Namya Foundation reached the empaneled hospital for treatment of Srinivas Sahu’s illness, the doctors expressed their inability to meet the cost of treatment at government expense due to non-availability of MoU. Then the members gave this information to Kunal Sharangi.
Kunal Sharangi immediately had a phone conversation with the Principal Secretary, Health Department, Arun Kumar Singh in this regard. Arun Kumar Singh immediately came into action and issued orders to the Health Department to add 17 new diseases under Article 39A and to send it to all the districts by issuing a letter of MoU related to it.
This helped financially to Srinivas Sahu, who was undergoing treatment at Apollo, Bhubaneswar. His treatment bill was 5 lakh 8 thousand, out of which 3 lakh 30 thousand 100 rupees were received from the government under the Chief Minister’s Critical Illness Treatment Scheme. His family had somehow deposited 55 thousand. Unable to pay the rest, Kunal Sharangi got Srinivas Sahu discharged from the hospital after waiving the bill of 1 lakh 22 thousand 900 after talking to the Apollo Hospital management.Unfortunately, he died in an ambulance on the Orissa-Jharkhand border on his way to Jamshedpur from Bhubaneshwar late in the night. Kunal Sharangi expressed regret over his death.
Kunal Sharangi has thanked the Principal Secretary, Health Department, Arun Kumar Singh, for getting a written order issued to take the cabinet order on the ground as soon as the matter came to the notice. Now the needy patients will be able to get full benefits under the Chief Minister’s Critical Illness Treatment Scheme in empaneled hospitals.