Secy Health Dr Abid convenes meeting with private hospitals, dialysis centres, assures release of dues in shortest possible time

SRINAGAR: With regards to the recent directions of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh on 11/September which directed the UT of J&K to utilize the amount lying with it for reimbursement of medical claims, a meeting was convened on Friday by Secretary Health Dr Syed Abid Rasheed Shah with the private hospitals and dialysis centres of J&K in which he stressed that in compliance with the High Court directions, all our dues will be disbursed in the shortest possible time
The high court in its order AA no 01 of 2024, dated 28/08/2024 had directed the insurance company IFFCO Tokio for the larger public interest, ‘to continue with the existing arrangement as per terms & condition of the contract agreement ‘but they however did not comply with the court orders.
It’s pertinent to mention that The Insurance Company IFFCO Tokio had itself discontinued the implementation of the Ayushman Bharat Jan Arogya(ABPMJAY) scheme with effect from 15.03.2024, due to which the Empanelled Health Care Providers are not receiving any payments for the treatments given to the patients under the scheme.
Faizan Mir, President (Kashmir Region) J&K Hospitals and Dialysis Centres Association said, “An official meeting regarding this matter was held by the association with the Chief Executive Officer(CEO) in April 2024 who assured that the matter will be solved by the 1st week of May 2024. After the failure of the release of payments an application was submitted to the Chief Secretary through CEO, Ayushman Bharat on 18th May 2024 with a request for the release of the funds by 31st May 2024 otherwise the hospitals will be forced to stop the services due to paucity of the funds.”
Mir further added, “On 31st May 2024, the Secretary of Health conveyed an online meeting with all private hospitals and dialysis centres of Jammu & Kashmir UT whereby, it was assured that the money is safe and the matter will be sorted out soon.”
Sandeep, President (Jammu region) said, “A letter addressed to the DCs of various districts was submitted in their offices mentioning the paucity of funds and collapse of the whole system if the emergency funds under their jurisdiction are not released which was however never released.”
Recently, the association met the LG last week who assured that the issue will be sorted out soon.
Dr Masood ul Hassan, General Secretary said, “Based on the assurances by Secretary Health Dr Syed Abid Rasheed Shah today that the payment will be released in the shortest possible time and for the benefit of the public at large, a decision was taken to resume the services under golden card from tomorrow morning.”
The association said it is grateful to LG Manoj Sinha, Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo, Secretary H&ME Dr Syed Abid Rasheed Shah and CEO Sanjiv M Gadkar who are working on this issue on priority.

KR Desk