Kathmandu, March 1
Health insurance scheme has been offered to inmates of Central Jail. The Jail Management Department implemented the health insurance scheme to be effective from mid-February to provide easy access to inmates in their health treatment.
Chief of the Health Programme at the Central Jail, Kalpana Gyawali, shared that the health insurance scheme was implemented targeting the inmates who have spent more than one-year jail term in the central jail.
The Department has a covered health insurance scheme of Rs 3,500 for each inmate and the insurance cover would be automatically invalid once the inmate completes their jail term. Jail Administrator Lalit Basnet said that the health insurance programme for inmates was implemented to help the prisoners. With this, each prisoner would get treatment of Rs 100,000 through insurance coverage.
Apart from this, the government has been providing medical treatment to the inmates through the Central Prison Hospital. Jail Administrator Basnet said the patients who cannot be treated at the hospital are treated at various 25 hospitals with which the prison administration has signed an agreement.
