Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 7: In the current pandemic situation, keeping in view the safety of its customers, LIC has announced relaxations in various claim settlement requirements to make the processes easier and hassle free.
A spokesman of the LIC said that to facilitate speedy settlement of death claims in the prevailing situation where death has occurred in a hospital, in lieu of Municipal death certificates, LIC has allowed alternate proofs of death such as: death certificate, discharge summary/ death summary containing clear date and time of death issued by Govt/ESI/ Armed Forces/ Corporate Hospitals and counter-signed by LIC Class- I officers or Development Officers of 10 years standing alongwith Cremation/Burial certificate or authentic identifying receipt issued by the relevant authority.
Apart from upscaling testing and surveillance, the state health department has also increased vaccination centres and has ramped up vaccination in the recent days.
HYDERABAD: The middle and upper middle-class category of residents are more prone to contracting the virus during the ongoing second wave. Currently, around 5,000 patients are admitted at various private and corporate hospitals in the state, especially in and around the city, pushing bed availability to the brink.
“During the first wave, majority of the lower-class population already got affected. In the current wave, we are seeing more of middle-class and above getting affected. This is the reason we are seeing a large number of admissions in the private hospitals. Currently around 2,000 patients are admitted in government hospitals in the state while nearly 5,000 patients are in private hospitals,” said Dr G Srinivasa Rao, director of public health, Telangana.