Health Minister Ma. Subramanian said on Tuesday that more than 1.11 crore persons in the State had benefitted from the Chief Minister’s Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme (TNCMCHIS) sinced it was launched by former Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi.
Speaking at an event organised to felicitate doctors of government institutions and Gleneagles Global Health City at Perumbakkam for conducting over 125 liver transplants under the scheme during the pandemic, he said the scheme was expanded to cover more diseases. “Chief Minister M. K. Stalin wanted us to make it cover more diseases and more hospitals to benefit more deserving patients, which is what it is now,” he said. Under ‘Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam’, 65 lakh persons had been covered since the scheme was launched in August last year, he said.
