Health Minister's Discretionary Grant (HMDG) has been set up for providing financial assistance to poor indigent patients, for life threatening diseases covered under Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi in cases where free medical facilities are not available. Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi provides for financial assistance to patients, living below poverty line and who is suffering from major life threatening diseases, to receive medical treatment at any of the super specialty Government hospitals / institutes.