As announced by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, patients suffering from Stage III and IV cancer will now start getting a monthly pension of Rs 2,500, for which a separate budgetary provision of Rs 68.42 crore has been made by the .
Earlier, Tripura was the only state in the country that had been giving monthly financial assistance of Rs 1,000 to stage-III cancer patients
Documents verified by a panel of the Civil Surgeon Office will have to be uploaded through Saral Kendra.
Earlier, in terms of giving monthly pension to cancer patients, Tripura was the only state in the country that had been giving monthly financial assistance of Rs 1,000 to stage-III cancer patients.