pune a 62yearold retired central government employee in the city had to recently borrow funds from his soninlaw to undergo an emergency bypass surgery another 72yearold central government pensioner had to cut down on her routine expenses to make provision for chemotherapy and radiation treatmentthese are not cases in isolation nearly 15 lakh central government pensioners living in pune and pimpri chinchwad are forced to make out of pocket expenditure despite being covered under the central government health scheme cghsthis is because quite a few prominent cghs empanelled private hospitals have stopped the cashless facility for the pensioners over nonpayment of dues from the cenre there are over 63 private hospitals in pune empanelled under the schemesince surgeries often involve huge sums we have to take loans we can get the cost reimbursed after the discharge but the process takes more than a month said the 62yearold pensionerruby hall had stopped the cashless facility since february this year while some other empanelled hospitals decided to stop the service from july the suspension of services has mainly hit the retired central government employees who are eligible to seek cashless services under cghs