Self printed CGHS card is valid for all CGHS facilities throughout Country: CGHS Hq OM dated 15.12.2022

सत्यमेव जयते

Government of India

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Department of Health & Family Welfare

Directorate General of CGHS

No: Z.15025/7/2022/DIR/CGHS                                  Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi 110011

                                                                                         Dated the 15th December 2022

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Subject:- Instructions to all CGHS Wellness Centres and Units to follow CGHS guidelines issued from time to time.

With reference to the above subject the undersigned is directed to state that CMOS in charge and other Medical Officers and staff of all CGHS Wellness Centres and the staff working at the administrative offices of CGHS shall keep themselves updated with the guidelines / orders issued under CGHS and implement the same in discharging their duties. In this regard it is reiterated that special attention may be paid for the following issues:

i. Punctuality in attendance - Additional Directors shall monitor the Aadhar based Bio-metric

attendance system and take necessary action.

ii. Self printed CGHS card is valid for all CGHS facilities and is valid in any CGHS Wellness

Centre in the Country, even if, the card is registered with a Wellness Centre, where the card holder is residing. This applies to issues of medicines, referral and endorsement of referral.

iii. CGHS beneficiaries may be issued medicines for treatment of chronic illnesses by medical Officers of CGHS for three months (including Indents) from any Wellness Centre. In case of treatment of Chronic illnesses, all CGHS Medical Officers are competent to provide follow-up treatment after advice by Specialists and Medical Officers of CGHS can issue the same medicines to CGHS beneficiaries prescribed by the Specialists even after the expiry of the validity of the prescription in Chronic diseases, where the clinical condition is stable and CGHS shall not insist on immediate revalidation by Specialists..the period for which the prescription has been issued. Only in such cases, wherein there is a need for modification of the diagnosis and/or modification of the line of treatment, beneficiaries should be referred to the concerned specialist.

iv. However, in cases of Chemotherapy medicines and immunosuppressant treatment regular follow up from Specialists would be advisable and medicines may be repeated upto seven days only awaiting the review by Specialists.