Covid-19 vaccinations must be provided free of cost at ESI dispensaries and hospitals and the family members of those succumbing to the virus must get suitable compensation. Also, the government must give special assistance to those suffering from the pandemic.
Reimburse medical expenses of workers: BMS
May 12, 2021
Demands financial compensation to the insured persons and family members who die of Covid-19
Contesting the Union Labour Ministry’s claims that Employees State Insurance Corporation has reached out to workers during the Covid-19 crisis, the RSS-backed trade union Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh feels there is no special protection to those who are covered under ESI. BMS general secretary Binay Kumar Sinha said in a letter to Union Labour Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar that the workers are deprived of the entitled medical benefits due to conversion of ESI Hospitals as dedicated Covid-19 hospitals.
He said in the letter that the pandemic has affected the working class which is facing loss of income and the attack of Covid-19. As a temporary arrangement to reduce the hardships, Sinha asked the Minister to reimburse medical expenses of workers hospital treatment whether empanelled or not, at actual rates. He asked the Centre to provi
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(L) Keshav Thakkar and son Janak Thakkar and Sameer Thakkar
Vadodara: It was a month ago that they had to admit 96-year-old Keshav Thakkar, the oldest member of their family, to the hospital for Covid-19 treatment. And within the next 24 hours, Keshav’s son and son-in-law too got hospitalised as they got infected with the Coronavirus.
For the next fortnight, the entire Thakkar family was on the edge. But the trio didn’t just beat Coronavirus, they are now hale and hearty. “It was in the last week of March that we were detected with Covid-19. First my grandfather-in-law Keshav Thakkar was tested positive and within the next three days I and my father-in-law Janak Thakkar contracted Coronavirus,” said 41-year-old Sameer Thakkar.