Covid: Free treatment for govt staff

Chennai:07.04.2020

The Tamil Nadu government has announced free treatment for frontline staff of its essential services departments if they test positive for coronavirus. The treatment will be provided both in government and private hospitals. They will also get ex-gratia of ₹2 lakh.

This is applicable to all categories of officials belonging to health and family welfare, revenue and disaster management, police, sanitary and conservancy employees of rural and urban local bodies dealing with prevention work, and other departments directly involved in Covid-19 prevention, identification, quarantine and treatment activities. TNN