SSB mobile medical units serve treatment to insured employees marking Diamond Jubilee Independence Day

SSB mobile medical units serve treatment to insured employees marking Diamond Jubilee Independence Day

TWO mobile medical units of the Social Security Board under the Ministry of Labour are providing healthcare services at its affili­ated ministries like the Ministry of Information, the Ministry of Electric Power and Ministry of Immigration and Population to hail the Diamond Jubilee Inde­pendence Day.

Union Minister for Labour Dr Pwint San comforted the op­erations of medical units and the Union ministers concerned also inspected the treatment process­es yesterday.

The Social Security Board of MoL is drafting a strategic plan under the Social Insurance sys­tem and providing 15 SSB ben­efits of two insurance systems out of six to the employees, who are mainly from the country’s manufacturing sector, using the SSB contributions of employer, employee and government under the 2012 Social Security Law. De­pending on the monthly SSB fees, insured workers can get the ben­efits such as health treatment, maternity, funeral, temporary dis­ability benefit, permanent disabil­ity benefit and survivors’ benefits for decease owing to occupation.

Moreover, the SSB is carry­ing out four reforms – IT Reform, Medical Reform, Administrative Reform and Legal Reform to become a reliable department of insured workers, offer better healthcare, the main require­ment of employers and employ­ees and facilitate the fast flow of benefits.

The SSB implements the So­cial Security Project providing health care and benefits to 1.3 mil­lion insured workers in 116 town­ships at three workers’ hospitals, 99 SSB offices of regions/states/ districts/townships, 96 township clinics, 57 departmental clinics, 12 Free for services payment clinics with PPS system, 25 Capitation payment clinics, eight obstetric clinics one traditional medicinal clinic and also offering treatment with two mobile medical units, and a total of 89,949 insured work­ers get treatment at departments to date.

The two mobile medical units of SSB under the Ministry of La­bour will provide medical treat­ment at the Ministry of Informa­tion, Ministry of Immigration and Population, Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Transport and Communications, Ministry of Electric Power and Ministry of Labour between 12 and 14 December to hail the Dia­mond Jubilee Independence Day and will keep providing mobile health-care service at industrial zones of Yangon Region.

MNA/ KTZH

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