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Our CorrespondentKohima, Oct. 14 (EMN): The Chief Minister’s Health Insurance Scheme (CHIMS), a state-specific welfare scheme aimed at providing universal health coverage to the citizens of Nagaland, was launched at the State Banquet Hall in Kohima on Friday. Launching the ambitious scheme, Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio described the occasion as a ‘red letter day’. “People of the state will have an assurance of better access to healthcare services than they had ever before,” he said. “Many a time, such expenditure is not within the means of the family and as such the only way out was to resort to borrow from friends, relatives or in many cases from money lenders in order to pay. Returning this borrowed money remains an extreme burden. It is a known fact that many families are driven to poverty or suffer extreme hardship on account of this. I am sure that this scheme will prevent such hardships,” he added. The CM informed that all the government hospitals in the state will be ....

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