Syangja-  Chapakot municipality in Syangja district has offered health insurance service to 600 poor families for free. Out of 10 wards of the municipality, 60 poor families have been selected in each ward for the insurance coverage. Mayor Dev Bahadur Khand said the municipality offered health insurance service to such number of economically poor households with the thinking that no one should be deprived of basic health services due to financial reasons. “The municipality brought them under the free health insurance coverage to provide accessible health services to people from the indigent community affiliating them in health insurance scheme launched by the government of Nepal,” he mentioned. The municipality has allocated Rs 2.560 million budget for health insurance scheme of poor community in the current fiscal year. It has distributed insurance card to such poor families and a family of five members would get health treatment service free of cost.