Couple thankful for mySalam benefits

ARAU: Mansor Puteh and his wife Kalsom Salleh are grateful that the mySalam national health protection scheme will help ease their financial burden.

Pak Chot, as he is affectionately known, is one of the recipients of the Cost of Living Aid (BSH), introduced by the government to help the low-income group.

“Thank God...last year’s BSH money had helped lessen the financial burden of treatment for my wife who underwent a surgery for cheek cancer on Feb 27, last year,” the blacksmith told Bernama.

Mansor, 54, said since his wife was diagnosed with cheek cancer in 2018, he had to turn down many orders because he had to bring her to the hospital and now they only relied on BSH in addition to the financial support from their children.

He said he had applied for the mySalam benefits on February 3.

“I know about mySalam benefits from my daughter who lives in Kuala Lumpur. She taught me how to apply and I prepared the documents needed for the application,” he said.

Meanwhile, Kalsom, 55, thanked the government for introducing the mySalam initiative.

The mySalam scheme, initiated by the Pakatan Harapan government, offers two types of benefits for 45 critical illnesses, whereby recipients are entitled to a one-off payment of RM8,000 and hospitalisation allowance of RM50 per day at any government hospital, university medical hospital and army hospital for a maximum 14 days or RM700 per annum.

BSH recipients aged 18 to 65 and their spouses, recipients of BSH aid for bachelors and disabled people, as well as the middle-income group (M40) with an annual income of less than RM100,000 are eligible for the benefits.