An Employee is Eligible for Treatment Cost Reimbursement even the hospital is not on CGHS list’: Delhi HC
The Central Government's appeal challenging a Central Administrative Tribunal order ordering it to reimburse a pensioner who served as a senior carpenter for the government for the money he spent on emergency medical treatment.
An Employee is Eligible for Treatment Cost Reimbursement even the hospital is not on CGHS list’: Delhi HC
The Delhi High Court’s division bench stated that it is crucial to save human lives and that it is the responsibility of the State to make sure that a person receives medical care when it is required. It would be considered a violation of Article 21 of the Constitution to refuse to get such therapy.
Therefore, in accordance with the HC, the mediclaim for reimbursement will need to be recognised and funded if a government employee receives emergency care at a hospital that isn’t on the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) panel.
In such cases, the HC thinks it is more crucial to determine if the claim is legitimate than it is to determine whether the hospital that provided the treatment is a member of the CGHS panel or not. Specifically, if the employee truly received treatment and provided documentation to support that claim.
The Central Government’s appeal challenging a Central Administrative Tribunal order ordering it to reimburse a pensioner who served as a senior carpenter for the government for the money he spent on emergency medical treatment at the Vidyasagar Institute of Mental Health, Neuro & Allied Sciences (VIMHANS), Delhi, was dismissed by the panel of justices V Kameswar Rao and Anoop Kumar.
The government employee in question went to court because his claim for reimbursement had been dismissed since VIMHANS was not on the CGHS panel and the retiree had sought treatment on his own initiative.
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