TEAM HERALD
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NEW DELHI: Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday assured MP Shantaram Naik that a CGHS (central government health services) dispensary for the Central Government employees and pensioners will be set up in Panjim.
Naik raised the issue through a supplementary question during the Question Hour, pointing out that there is neither a dispensary for the central staff nor any hospital in Goa empanelled with the CGHS for treatment. The same kind of complaint was made by a Kerala MP that no private hospital and diagnostic centres are empanelled in her State.
Azad said Goa was among nine, ten State capitals that still did not have any CGHS dispensary and hence the decision has been taken to set up such dispensaries in all such state capitals. That includes Dehradun in Uttarakhand, he said.
As regards empanelling private hospitals and diagnostic centres where a central employee can undergo treatment and the government reimburses the hospital or centre, Azad said difficulty arises when they are not prepared to accept the rates fixed by the CGHS as the government cannot pay more than these rates.
