Sri Lanka has launched a medical insurance program exclusively for Buddhist monks and their family members which will provide hospitalization and diagnostic testing cover.
The insurance will include an annual premium of 2,000 rupees, a cover of 1,000 rupees a day up to a maximum of 15,000 rupees for hospitalization in a private or state hospital.
For diagnostic tests or medicine, another 25,000 rupees will be afforded and a 2,000 rupee policy can be gifted by devotees to a Buddhist monk.
The budget also allocates enough to provide a house for parents who have sent away their children to become Buddhist monks. Parents with land and no house would be given 600,000 rupees.
