Integrated healthcare scheme for Central Govt Employees & Pensioners BPS affiliate writes to PM. Pensioners fraternity is requested to support.

Request for Integrated Health Scheme. BPS affiliate PAR/Seccunderabad writes to  The Prime Minister

PAR/CO/PMO/2022 1st May, 2022

To,  

Sri. Narendra Modi ji, 

Hon. Prime Minister of  India,

(I/C, M/O P,PG & Pensions) 

Respected Sir, Namaste !

Reg: May Day Greetings & Request for Integrated Central Government Employees & Pensioners Health Scheme

Please accept Hearty May Day Greetings on behalf of our Pensioners’ Association of Railways which represents Lakhs of railway pensioners being patronised by National Federation of Indian Railwaymen, your  good self  being the epitome of working class & a great crusader in the service of our Mother India.

I am constrained to bring to your kind notice an important & serious issue which is causing lot of heartburning to all central government employees and workers, serving and retired alike. As it concerns the Health Services, the working of various schemes like CGHS, RELHS,ECHS etc already in vogue for Central Government employees & pensioners including Defence Department are unable to meet the requirements of the beneficiaries in the crux of the time due to their varied limitations &  restrictions, resulting serious nightmare to the patients and their families, who had no other option for getting a better treatment and deal even though available nearby. The problems, infect have multiplied since  the advent  of pandemic. The hardships of the health scheme beneficiaries differ from unit to unit and department to department based on the specific stipulations made by the authorities concerned. For example, if a patient is referred from Railway Hospital to a Corporate Hospital, of course after succeeding in exerting pressure from  some influential quarter, the patient /attendant need to undergo lot of  avoidable  window jobs  of reporting in various counters and sundry works like transporting papers from one seat to other and exchange of documents between  Railway Hospital and the Referral Hospital even in this technologically highly advanced time of sending digital files through internet.

Just to facilitate some relief to the personnel who are at the helm of affairs, Railways has extended the benefit of option of either RELHS or CGHS for the officers of Railway Board. Distraught with RELHS, and to get the same relief as Railway Board officials, to avail the flexible  advantage of other scheme, CGHS, Ms. 

Archana Joshi, GM, S.E. Rly & Sri. Arun Arora, GM, E. Rly requested extension of the same facility for officials serving and retiring from Zonal Railways also through their letters dt 23.3.22 & 16.3.22 respectively.  

In this connection, please allow me to make a simple and relevant suggestion. With the advent of technology in all fields, the life of common people became less stressful, more in the sectors of Banking and Communication. For example, the ATM of any Bank caters to the customers of all Banks irrespective of their holding account in a particular Bank /Place etc and the same is accounted within no time to the individual’s account and the safeguards are many and the facility is acclaimed by one and all. It is a great transformation when compared to the situation a few years ago.

The same thing can be brought into effect with respect to Health Services of Central Government Employees/Pensioners by bringing all the schemes under one integrated system like Integrated Central Government Employees & Pensioners Health Scheme which allows the beneficiaries to chose the hospitals listed and the accountable and services rendered can be directly accounted in the respective Departments and Units as being done in the case of Banking Industry. By bringing all the beneficiaries of CGHS, RELHS, ECHS etc under one umbrella and allowing them the facility of availing medical services through single window system in all the Hospitals recognised by the respective ministries through similar software, the Government will be extending a great relief to the serving & retired whose services are quite exemplary and whose role in the country’s progress and development are ever remembered. By integration of health services and allowing single window system will avoid lot of inconvenience, frictions, hardships, emotional upsets etc to these serving/retired employees belonging all pivotal services of Central Government..

The Pensioners’ Association of Railways requests your good self to kindly look into this issue & do the needful at the earliest.

We fondly wish and hope your ensuing 3 Day Europe trip, to Germany, Denmark and France a great success undoubtedly as earlier & as we all pray always ‘ sarve janaa sukhino bhavantu ‘ augurs  the much needed impetus for stopping the present war and unfortunate destruction and loss of lives  in Europe which itself is a great and grave threat to the whole world at present.

Thanking you, Sir,

Yours sincerely,

(S. N. C. Ramakrishnamacharyulu) 

GENERAL SECRETARY