No user fee at Govt hospitals from I-Day

| | BHUBANESWAR | in Bhubaneswar

In good news for the patients visiting the Government hospitals, the State Government has decided to waive user fee for them at the hospitals from the Independence Day this year.

As the State’s own healthcare scheme Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana would be launched on August 15, the authorities

are planning to gift the people exemption of paying user charges at the hospitals including all Primary Health Centres (PHC) up to District Headquarters Hospitals (DHHs) from the auspicious day.

Health Secretary Dr Pramod Kumar Meherda has written a letter in this regard to all district Collectors and civic bodies for successful implementation of the facilities at the Government hospitals from August 15.

However, the cabin fee of Inpatient Department (IPD) would not be included in the user fee waiving facility plan.Notably, the authorities had fixed Rs 5 each for the patients visiting Outpatient Department (OPD) of the Government hospitals and Rs 10 from IPD patients as the user fee. With the new move, the patients need not to pay user fee any more for visiting the Government hospitals from the Independence Day.