hyderabad though the muchdelayed employee health scheme ehs for government employees and pensioners was launched last week but it got a lukewarm response owing to the impending division of the state while the registration process was going on since the last year just about two lakh employees out of the total 14 lakh beneficiaries have registered so far employees say the scheme that allows beneficiaries to avail cashless treatment is full of ambiguity and awareness among the employees is zero a large section of the beneficiaries is oblivious of the particulars of the scheme said a government employee with the health department days after the soft launch another beneficiary who recently retired said though he had inquired with the aarogyasri trust that is also executing the ehs scheme but was told that his details have not reached the trust yet data has to come from the district treasury i was informed he added observers said since employees were busy with protests pertaining to the state bifurcation many are not even aware of the launch as yet and admitted that there were lots of hiccups officials from the state health department said that instructions have gone out from the chief secretary recently to all the departments to encourage people to apply its a huge task we will have a fast track the process with the help of the finance department it will pick up momentum this month said ajay sawhney principal secretary health people have started availing the facilities he added as per the ehs website 405 beneficiaries had registered for treatment under the scheme ever since it was launched on december 5 employees are unhappy over reservation of treatments for public sector hospitals earlier under aarogyasri scheme from the total 938 procedures 133 have been reserved for government hospitals for ehs 347 procedures including the 133 procedures reserved earlier will be performed only by staterun hospitals we are paying the premium but still several routinely performed surgeries have been reserved for government hospitals will any of the mps ministers or bureaucrats set an example by getting treatments done at osmania or gandhi hospitals questioned an employee however sawhney said the procedures are amenable to misuse or overuse and hence were reserved for staterun hospitals wherein there is no profit motive it is better to be safe than sorry he said adding that universities ghmc and many of the autonomous institutions will be covered in the next phase sawhney also said the scheme will not get affected by the bifurcation of the state the scheme will be implemented in both the states he added