Kin of pvt docs who died of Covid entitled to PM insurance cover: SC

The families of doctors who died while doing their duties during the Covid-19 pandemic are entitled to the Central Government’s insurance coverage scheme “Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package: Insurance Scheme for Health Workers Fighting Covid-19”, even if they were not formally requisitioned by the government, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

A Bench of Justice PS Narasimha and Justice R Mahadevan set aside an order of the Bombay High Court which held that private doctors were not entitled to the government’s insurance scheme. The high court order had come on a plea filed by Kiran Bhaskar Surgade, whose husband — who ran a private clinic in Thane — died due to Covid-19 in 2020. The insurance company rejected her claim under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package (PMGKP) on the ground