
Comprehensive Protection Against 50 Critical Illnesses - Critical Care Essential
Protects you against 50 Critical Illnesses with additional payout.
Critical Care Essential is a unit deducting rider and can be attached to waive the basic premium of regular premium investment-linked plans. This plan provides coverage in the event of insured person is first diagnosed of a dread disease.
With this rider, you’ll receive:
- Critical illness protection
- Additional sum assured to basic plan sum assured
- Maximum sum assured up to RM4,000,000
List of 50 Critical Illnesses Covered
NO. | CRITICAL ILLNESS |
1 | Alzhiemer's Disease / Severe Dementia |
2 | Angioplasty and other invasive treatments for coronary artery disease |
3 | Apallic Syndrome |
4 | Bacterial Meningitis – Resulting in permanent inability to perform activities of daily living |
5 | Benign Brain Tumour – of specified severity |
6 | Blindness - Permanent and Irreversible |
7 | Brain Surgery |
8 | Cancer - of specified severity and does not cover very early cancers |
9 | Cardiomyopathy – of specified severity |
10 | Chronic Aplastic Anemia – resulting in permanent bone marrow failure |
11 | Chronic Autoimmune Hepatitis |
12 | Chronic Relapsing Pancreatitis |
13 | Coma – resulting in permanent neurological deficit with persisting clinical symptoms |
14 | Coronary Artery By-Pass Surgery |
15 | Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease |
16 | Crohn's Diseases with Fistula |
17 | Deafness - Permanent and Irreversible |
18 | Elephantiasis |
19 | Encephalitis – resulting in permanent inability to perform activities of daily living |
20 | End-Stage Liver Failure |
21 | End-Stage Lung Disease |
22 | Full-blown AIDS |
23 | Fulminant Viral Hepatitis |
24 | Heart Attack - of specified severity |
25 | Heart Valve Surgery |
26 | HIV Infection Due To Blood Transfusion |
27 | Infective Endocarditis |
28 | Kidney Failure - requiring dialysis or kidney transplant |
29 | Loss of Independent Existence |
30 | Loss of Speech |
31 | Major Head Trauma |
32 | Major Organ / Bone Marrow Transplant |
33 | Medullary Cystic Disease |
34 | Motor Neuron Disease – permanent neurological deficit with persisting clinical symptoms |
35 | Multiple Sclerosis |
36 | Muscular Dystrophy |
37 | Occupationally Acquired Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection |
38 | Paralysis of limbs |
39 | Parkinson's Disease - resulting in permanent inability to perform activities of daily living |
40 | Pheochromocytoma |
41 | Poliomyelitis |
42 | Primary Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension – of specified severity |
43 | Progressive Scleroderma |
44 | Serious Coronary Artery Disease |
45 | Stroke - resulting in permanent neurological deficit with persisting clinical symptoms |
46 | Surgery to Aorta |
47 | Systemic Lupus Erythematosus with Severe Kidney Complications |
48 | Terminal Illness |
49 | Third Degree Burns – of specified severity |
50 | Ulcerative Colitis with Total Colectomy |
Insured: 14 days to 65 years old. Policyholder: 16 years old and above.
The rider coverage term is up to Life Assured's age 100 or maturity of basic plan, whichever earlier.
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The benefits payable are protected by PIDM up to limits. Please refer to PIDM TIPS brochure or contact Zurich Life Insurance Malaysia Berhad or PIDM.