Chandigarh starts Rs 50K ex gratia for kin of Covid victims

Naina Mishra

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 26

The UT Administration has started giving ex gratia of Rs 50,000 to the kin of those who died due to Covid-19, after the directions of the Apex Court.

Disbursement of funds will be done under the District Disaster Management Authority to the next of kin of those who died due to coronavirus. The families concerned will submit their claims through a form issued by the Chandigarh authority along with the specified documents, including the death certificate that certifies the cause of death as “death due to Covid-19.”

All claims will be settled within 30 days of submission of required documents and disbursed through Aadhaar-linked Direct Benefit Transfer procedures.

It is pertinent to mention here that deaths due to poisoning, suicide, homicide and deaths due to accident will not be considered as Covid deaths even if coronavirus was the accompanying condition.

As many as 820 persons have succumbed to Covid-19 in Chandigarh. An official source has informed that already four to five persons have claimed for the compensation and have been awarded the amount in Chandigarh.

To help the families of those who died due to Covid, all hospitals concerned where the patient was admitted and provided treatment will provide all necessary documents of treatment to the family member of deceased as and when demanded.

The criteria

• Covid-19 cases, which have not been resolved and have died either in hospital settings or at home, and where a medical certificate of cause of death has been issued to the registering authority will be treated as Covid-19 death.
• A Covid-19 patient, while admitted to a hospital/in-patient facility, and who continued as the same admission beyond 30 days and died subsequently will also be treated as Covid death.
• Deaths occurring within 30 days from the date of testing or from the date of being clinically determined as a Covid-19 case will be treated as deaths due to Covid, even if the death takes place outside the hospital/in-patient facility.

Claims to be settled within 30 days

• All claims will be settled within 30 days of submission of required documents and disbursed through Aadhaar-linked Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) procedures.

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