Bhubaneswar: Odisha Health and Family Welfare Department Commissioner-cum-Secretary Shalini Pandit on Tuesday wrote to all municipal commissioners, SPs, DCPs of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack and all CDMs and PHOs on sensitising the Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana (BSKY) beneficiaries and curbing fraudulent activities using the health cards.
As per the letter, BSKY is a path-breaking scheme aimed to provide universal health coverage, with special emphasis on the health protection of economically vulnerable families and women.
Under component 2 of the scheme, all 96.5 lakh families of Odisha having NFSA/SFSS cards are provided with BSKY annual health coverage of Rs 5 lakh per family and an additional Rs 5 lakh for the women members of the family, at empanelled private hospitals. In view of recent incidents reported regarding the exploitation of beneficiaries by nefarious elements, all concerned may be sensitized on the following points:
- BSKY Smart Health Card once issued to a beneficiary does not require renewal, as it is auto-renewed annually through the BSKY IT platform.
- The beneficiary does not have to pay anyone or go to any office for renewal of the card as the same is auto-renewed by the IT platform at the back end.
- All NFSA/SFSS beneficiaries having valid ration cards can avail of benefits under BSKY at the empanelled private hospital, without a BSKY card.
- Recharge of the balance on the card is also done automatically on September 1 every year through the BSKY IT platform.
Hence, all field workers and beneficiaries may be sensitized on these points, so that nefarious elements do not exploit beneficiaries in the name of renewal of the BSKY card or recharge of balance in the BSKY card, she wrote.
