RSBY in Government Hospitals in West Bengal : Sitai Block Hospital in Cooch Behar claimed Rs 20 lakhs from insurance in last 7 months and extended cashless treatments.

West Bengal started RSBY in Block hospitals after success in Secondary and Tertiary care hospitals. There has been manifold increase in income of Government hospitals from RSBY by providing cashless free indoor treatment supplementing the Rogi Kalyan Samities. With highest number of live smart cards 60 lakhs covering 212 lakhs individual, West Bengal is at the top in the country. 2.51 lakhs got free cashless treatment through network of 747 hospitals claiming Rs 168 Cr in last seven months out of which Rs 130 Cr is settled.
While secondary and Tertiary Hospitals are leading in performance in terms of volume of cases, small block primary hospital of Sitai in Cooch Behar shows the way to others by earning more than many district hospitals. Sitai covered 375 indoor patients under RSBY claiming Rs 20.4 lakhs from Insurance Company during February 2014 to October 2014. This is very good performance of Block level hospital and sets good trend as most of the cases are general medicine unlike surgeries in case of private nursing homes under the scheme. Team of Doctors and health personnel deserves appreciation.
This is great step to achieve self sufficiency to run hospital services without user charges and bed charges and strengthen the efforts of State Policy declared recently. Another hospital,  Haldibari Rural hospital earned Rs 11.18 lakhs from 381 cases during the same period.
While holding review workshops with Bdos and hospitals at CHINUSRAH on 14th November pleased to note that Jangipara Block hospital BMOH also performed quite well under RSBY. There are numerous examples of good performing Government hospitals showing path and good future of the scheme.

West Bengal proposes Additional Transport allowances to RSBY Card holders from remote and inaccesible areas and tertiary care facilties

RSBY scheme provides only Rs 100 per episode of hospitalisation to RSBY smart card holders. West Bengal allowed additional transport allowance of Rs 200 over and above Rs 100 to the RSBY patients getting admission in Government hospitals. After tremendous success of the intervention, proposal is under consideration to further enhance the additional transport allowances for patients from remote & inaccessible areas with difficult terrains like Sunderbans and for all the RSBY cardholders availing indoor services in Medical College & Teaching hospitals. Details follows.

West Bengal starts Online application for Clinical Establishment License and renewal for all Hospitals, nursing homes and diagnosis facilities in Districts

Online application receiving and processing of CE Licenses already started in Kolkata from 1st August 2014 and successfully functioning. System is very helpful to the private health care providers as all documents can be uploaded online and all the process of enquiry, inspection and issue of license are system generated time bound activities. Application is linked to sms and email gateways to keep the applicant updated instantly.
Now, this has been decided to roll out the online facility to all districts of West Bengal from 1st December 2014.
Details at www.wbhealth.gov.in under CE License Section.
There are plans to link online return of reports from health care providers through eFiling only thereby making good use of information.