BPL families deprived of National Health Insurance Scheme, complains Sundas

BPL families deprived of National Health Insurance Scheme, complains Sundas 

 MUKESH SHARMA KALIMPONG, May 08: The hills are yet again deprived of one of the important Governmental schemes i.e. the National Health Insurance Scheme initiated in the State after the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerji’s declaration on the eve of Independence Day last year that ‘no poor person shall die being deprived of medical aids’. TARA SUNDAS Voicing against this issue the Communist Party of Marxist (India) (CPM), Tara Sundas informed that though this Scheme has been introduced in the hills still out of 95, 560 BLP families only the photographs of 8000 people belonging to BPL have been taken. He also notified that the issuance of BLP card commenced since 1997 but they are counting only those who hold the Economical Household Card issued from 2005. Sundas further, alleged that the Government is trying to fool the beneficiaries by doing so. They keep on repeating about Medicare but no such facilities are provided in any of the Dispensaries, Clinics and Hospitals neither of Kalimpong nor Kurseong to avail the said service, added Sundas. Does this mean that the poor people need to go all the way to Siliguri where this service is available in 9 Hospitals, in order to benefit from this Scheme? Questioned Sundas.