According to a report on Business Standard, villagers and slum-dwellers who are the poorest of the poor in Maharashtra, India run their own health insurance fund, with spectacular results.
Dandekar bridge slum in Pune is unlike any other slum in the country. When someone here falls ill, the family just has to dial a 24-hour helpline, whose doctor advises them which government hospital the patient should consult. The family also receives money for treatment.
The slum-dwellers are part of a health security fund, an experimental project to which each person contributes Rs 60 annually. The unique fund is run by the slum-dwellers themselves along with those living in 88 other slums in Pune, Mahrasthra. So far, 30,000 have joined the fund, which covers all Pune slums and some villages in two other districts of the state. Dandekar bridge slum in east Pune accounts for 8,000 members.
More on this scheme on Business Standard.
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