Medical services extended to 45,000 RTC employees through 1900 empaneled hospitals, says Transport Minister

Minister for Transport Mandipalli Ramprasad Reddy connected Tuesday (February 24) informed the State Legislative Assembly that astir 45,000 employees of the A.P. State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) and their families were availing aesculapian facilities nether the Employees’ Health Scheme (EHS) successful 1900 empanelled hospitals crossed the State.

Responding to a question regarding the lack of RTC dispensaries and the difficulties being faced by APSRTC employees successful accessing attraction nether the EHS, raised by BJP members P. Vishnu Kumar Raju and V. Parthasarathy during the Question Hour, the Minister said nether EHS, the authorities provides fiscal assistance of up to ₹2 lakh for attraction successful super-speciality hospitals, with an further ₹2 lakh sanctioned wherever necessary. Providing details of the fiscal support, Mr. Ramprasad said successful 2025 alone, ₹4.85 crore was reimbursed to 734 RTC employees nether the aesculapian reimbursement facility.

On the contented of pensions for RTC workers, the Minister assured the Assembly that helium would sermon the substance with the Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and guarantee that an due determination was taken successful the involvement of the employees.

The Minister claimed that the wellness and information of RTC workers was the apical precedence of the authorities and appreciated the dedicated efforts of the APSRTC unit for palmy implementation of the “Stree Shakti” scheme. He informed the House that aesculapian services were presently being provided to the employees done 19 dispensaries located astatine territory office crossed the State, on with a cardinal infirmary successful Vijayawada.