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- A first of its kind hospitalization cover for critical illnesses and surgeries
- The range offers Critical Mediclaim, Cancer Mediclaim, Heart Mediclaim and Operation
Mediclaim
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New Delhi, March 26, 2019:
Religare Health Insurance (RHI), one of India’s leading health insurers
unveiled a first of its kind hospitalization insurance product, Super Mediclaim, a comprehensive
range of health insurance plans for critical illnesses and surgeries. The range offers a host of
benefits for 32 defined critical illnesses as well as cancer treatment, heart disease treatment and
surgeries. The product is considered to be cost effective as it offers a host of other benefits including
preventive health check up, OPD expenses, psychiatric counselling, cost of care and treatment,
recuperation expenses and cover against disease relapse.
Super Mediclaim is available in four variants namely, Cancer Mediclaim which covers all types of
cancers including early stage cancers, carcinoma in-situ etc.; Heart Mediclaim which offers insurance protection from 17 critical conditions of the heart including angioplasty, heart attack, bypass surgeries etc. Critical Mediclaim covers 32 critical illnesses related with cancer, heart attack, organ transplant, paralysis etc. and Operation Mediclaim which insures against all types of surgeries.
In a bid to enhance patient’s experience, Religare has included a ‘lifelong renewability on easy
instalments’ element with the product as the key selling point.Talking about the need for such a specifically designed product, Mr. Anuj Gulati, MD and CEO, Religare Health Insurance said, “In this age of uncertainty, your health should be a constant. We understand that one critical illness in the family can lead to a state of distress for the entire household. Therefore, the right guidance in choosing the best health cover and being financially equipped to access state-of-the art medical facilities are both extremely important. The health cover should not be a matter of incident but a lifelong engagement. With Super Mediclaim, we want to offer our customers a lifetime of care and health protection. ”
Given the increasing pace of urbanisation, RHI aims to address the rising incidents of critical health
conditions and surgeries, most of which demands high cost of treatment. Driven by the philosophy
to provide high quality health benefits at affordable prices to the masses, RHI’s product expansion
will help meet the current healthcare needs of the country.
“Super Mediclaim is part of our endeavour to become the most preferred health insurance service
provider that is caring, cost effective, innovative and reliable” added Mr. Gulati.
The product launch is in line with the organization’s objective of ensuring persons diagnosed with
critical illnesses always have easy access to quality & specialised healthcare. Super Mediclaim does that by offering coverage, preparing oneself for an exigency and be financially equipped to avail the advancements of medical sciences.
According to the recent World Health Organisation (WHO), Global burden of disease study over 40
per cent of adults in urban India, between 30-65 years of age are seriously overweight, death from cardiovascular diseases is nearly 10 million, about 10 lakh new cases of cancer are reported every
year. Diabetes is projected to stake claim to 57 million people in 2025. Also, respiratory diseases by
air pollution alone take away two billion productive days every year.
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