Department of Information and Public Relations

Press Release No. 181/06

DR AMBEDKAR MEDICAL AID SCHEME

The Deputy Commissioner, Ri Bhoi District, has informed that since January 2004, the Dr. Ambedkar Foundation, which was set up under the aegis of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, has implemented the Dr. Ambedkar Medical Aid Scheme, which aims to provide medical aids to Scheduled Castes patients suffering from life threatening diseases which requires surgery.

All Scheduled Castes families below the income of Rs. 50,000 per annum are entitled to the scheme. Financial aid of Rs. 75,000 or 50 p.c. of the cost, whichever is less, will be paid to the hospital, if the patient has to undergo surgical operations in any of the 10 identified hospitals or medical institutions such as All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute, UP, Patna Medical College Hospital, Bihar, Jabalpur Hospital and Research Centre, Madhya Pradesh, Barua Cancer Institute, Assam, Birla Heart Foundation, Kolkata, Kalinga Hospital Ltd, Chandrashekarpur, Orissa, Tata Cancer Research Institute, Mumbai, Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad and the Voluntary Health Services, Chennai.