New Delhi: State-owned New India Assurance has been entrusted to provide insurance cover of ₹50 lakh to about 22 lakh health care providers, who are on the frontline of battle against coronavirus.
This was part of the ₹1.70 lakh Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan package announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman last Thursday. "As announced by Finance Minister Smt @nsitharaman on March 26, @NewIndAssurance has issued detailed guidelines for providing insurance cover of ₹50 lakh per person for 22.12 lakh health care providers across the country," a tweet by the Finance Ministry said on Monday.
Doctors, nurses, paramedics, sanitation workers and a few others working in hospitals under Central and State governments will be covered under the