Chandrapur-(Dt. September 6)- The special medical ward in the ministry of Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has brought the light of perfect health to the lives of thousands of patients in the state by performing excellently in patient care. Poor – needy patients are being directly funded through the Deputy Chief Minister’s Medical Aid Cell for the painful and expensive surgeries. According to this, the Chamber has maintained a consistent performance graph and has provided financial assistance of Rs 12 crore 73 lakh in just 8 months.
From Mahe , January 2024 to Mahe , August 2024, 323 patients have been helped through the chamber. It includes heart disease , cancer , liver transplant , kidney transplant , bone marrow transplant , lung disease , bone disease organ replacement surgery ( Replacement Surgeries), etc. The poor patients have been appealed to take maximum benefit of the charity scheme on behalf of the Deputy Chief Minister’s Help Desk.
The Hon’ble High Court , Bombay has prepared a scheme to provide free and subsidized medical treatment to patients belonging to poor and vulnerable sections . Accordingly , every charitable hospital is required to reserve 10 percent of its total hospital beds for free treatment of indigent patients and 10 percent of beds for subsidized treatment of weaker section patients. It was pointed out that poor and poor patients are not getting the benefit of this scheme due to effective and transparent implementation.
After taking charge of the Law and Justice Department, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnis has taken steps for effective and transparent implementation of this scheme. As a part of the same, a state level special medical aid cell has been established in the ministry under the office of Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis as per the government decision dated 31.10.1023.
About 468 hospitals are registered under charity in the state and about 12 thousand beds are available for patients from poor and weak sections. This includes hospitals like Kokilaben , Mumbai , NN Reliance , Mumbai , Sahyadri Hospital , Pune , Dinanath Mangeshkar Hospital , Pune etc. Departmental workshops are also organized at Mumbai, Nagpur , Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar , Kolhapur through the department to see how Sarvadharmadaya Yojana can be implemented more effectively. was done. All the charitable hospitals of the state enthusiastically participated in this.
The work of developing an online system for the state-level special help rooms is in progress to make these concessionary beds transparently available to the patients belonging to the poor and weak sections and soon the said system will be working in the service of the general public. This will make it easier for patients to apply and will help in transparent implementation of the scheme.
If we do a comparative study of the various schemes of the central government as well as the state government, as this charity scheme has no limit on the cost of treatment, expensive surgeries like cancer, liver transplant , heart transplant are done free of cost to the patients from the poor group through this scheme. So this scheme has become a boon for poor and poor patients.
At present the work of the ward is in offline mode and the patients from the poor and vulnerable sections can get help from the state level special medical aid ward along with the application documents can be mailed to the email id charityhelp.dcmo @ maharashtra.gov.in or can be brought to the ward.
To get a bed in a charitable hospital, a patient needs his/ her application, relatives’ letter, letter from public representative , Aadhaar card/identity card , ration card/tehsildar’s income proof , doctor’s prescription.
Rameshwar Naik has appealed that the poor and weak patients should take advantage of the state-level special medical aid room to benefit from the scheme.
