PUNE: The inhabitants of newly merged 23 villages are still in the waiting line to get benefitted from Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) health scheme for the urban poor. Elected members of the civic body are pressing to allow residents to avail the benefits of the aforementioned scheme. They demand the expenses of their treatment be compensated at the earliest.
According to the scheme, the residents will get financial help for medical treatments from PMC. This initiative aired in 2010 and covers both COVID-19 and mucormycosis treatments. Any individual with less than RS 2 Lakh annual family income is eligible to avail the scheme and it remains valid for a financial year. However, after four months of assimilating these villages into PMC’s civic limits, there is still a delay in the dispersion of this scheme amongst the villagers.
Though PMC has ensured that this municipal scheme will be implemented in all the merged villages and they are also planning on expanding the Urban Poor Health Scheme.