CHANDIGARH: The Haryana government on Friday started the disbursal of monthly pension to cancer patients in the state. Patients suffering from Stage III and Stage IV cancer will get a monthly pension of Rs 2,500 for which a separate budgetary provision of Rs 68.42 crore has been made by the state government.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-3 cancer patients.Chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar had announced this pension in May this year.While interacting with the families of cancer patients, the CM had assured them that the state government will extend every possible help to them. He said that this assistance would be given to those patients whose family’s annual income is up to Rs 3 lakh.
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