Health rights groups seek pandemic package benefits for the needy
The Hindu
Many families do not have RT-PCR test reports to prove the cause of death, they tell govt.
Health rights groups in Rajasthan have sought extension of benefits of a financial assistance package for children and women who lost their parents and husbands, respectively, during the pandemic to all deserving cases through “verbal autopsies”. The benefits are being denied in the absence of the RT-PCR test reports. A large number of families, especially in the rural and remote areas, which have had COVID-19 deaths, are being denied the mandated benefits under the Chief Minister’s Corona Sahayata Yojana essentially because they do not have RT-PCR test reports to prove the cause of death.More Related News