Medisep, first announced in the State Budget of 2017-18 and slated to become one of the largest social insurance schemes ever, is finally getting off the ground.
The scheme, which envisages comprehensive health insurance coverage to approximately five lakh serving employees of the State government who are covered under the existing Kerala Government Servants Medical Attendant Rules and another five lakh pensioners, will be launched by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on July 1.
In effect, the scheme will benefit 30 lakh individual beneficiaries, including newly recruited employees and their family; part time contingent employees; part time teachers; teaching and non-teaching staff of aided schools and colleges and their family; pensioners and their spouses; family pensioners on compulsory basis; and all Civil Services officers.
