
BMS seeks relief to ESI beneficiaries hit by COVID
The Hindu
It seeks reimbursement of medical expenses, cash payments, free vaccination for them
The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh on Wednesday wrote to Labour Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar seeking help for those Employees State Insurance beneficiaries who have been affected by COVID-19. In his letter, BMS general secretary Binoy Kumar Sinha said the pandemic had badly affected the “poor working class who are unable to withstand due to loss of income on one side and the attack of COVID-19 on the other side.” He said it seemed that no special protections had been extended to those covered under the ESI while they were being deprived of care as ESI hospitals had been converted to dedicated COVID-19 treatment facilities.More Related News

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