Over 5.45 Lakh BSKY Beneficiaries Provided Health Services Of Rs 1191 Cr In Odisha

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has provided services worth Rs 1191 crore to over 5.45 lakh beneficiaries of its flagship health benefit scheme Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana (BSKY) since September, last year.

This was revealed when Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik took a detailed review meeting on BSKY on Wednesday. He expressed satisfaction over the functioning of the health benefit scheme.

The Chief Minister mentioned that the beneficiaries of this scheme have given good feedback on ‘Mo Sarkar’ platform. Naveen also hailed the BSKY as an important social security scheme of the government which provides quality health care at free of cost to the patients.

BSKY Smart Health Card have been given to 96.5 lakh families covering over 3.3 crore people. BSKY beneficiaries are provided healthcare in empanelled private hospitals for an annual health coverage of Rs 5 lakh per family and additional Rs 5 lakh for the women members of the family after exhaustion of the initial limit.

At present there are a total of 500 private hospitals within and outside the state which are empanelled under BSKY. Out of these 500 private hospitals, 98 are outside the state, which include hospitals of national repute like Tata Memorial hospitals, CMC Vellore, Sri Shankara Cancer Hospital Bangalore, Narayan Hrudalaya hospitals, Fortis Healthcare hospitals, Apollo hospitals etc.

Empanelled hospitals outside the State now cover 17 States of the country and are providing health care to all BSKY card holders throughout India. More than 76  beneficiaries availed the treatment in CMC Vellore and 979 no of beneficiaries availed the treatment in Tata memorial Hospital Mumbai.

After launch of BSKY Smart Health Card from September 1, 2021 the total beneficiaries are 5,45,339 and services provided touched worth Rs 1191 crores. The state government has borne the entire cost of health care provided by empanelled private hospitals. Out of these, 23,119 beneficiaries availed services worth Rs 64.25 crores in empaneled hospitals outside the State.

Of the total 5,45,339 patients benefitted, 2.5 lakh have availed healthcare up to Rs 5 lakh and 225 women have availed healthcare beyond Rs 5 lakh with 27 women patients getting healthcare of Rs 10 lakh each.

Presently the scheme benefits about 73,000 patients each month in empanelled private hospitals alone, for which the government bears a cost of Rs 165 crore monthly.

Call back is done to all BSKY beneficiaries undergoing treatment at empanelled private hospitals and presently the patient satisfaction level about services provided under BSKY is 97%. At the empaneled hospitals, Swasthya Mitras have been deployed to help the patients for admission and other services.