PUNE: The association of private hospitals in the city has urged the municipal corporation to clear Rs50 crore of dues pending for the treatment of Covid-19 patients referred by the civic administration.
The association has written a letter to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) commissioner highlighting details of the dues — Rs 50 crore for nine leading private health hubs — and seeking his intervention into the issue. The association has stated it would be difficult for the member hospitals to continue rendering Covid care if the dues were not paid.
“We have been making repeated requests to your office with regard to the huge outstanding from the PMC to the hospitals in Pune towards hospitalization of its beneficiaries. It is unfortunate that none of our requests have been addressed and most of the hospitals, as you know, are charitable trust hospitals,” association president Bomi Bhote said in the letter to the civic chief.
The letter stated the dues of each hospital ranged from Rs1 crore to Rs 11 crore.
PMC commissioner Vikram Kumar said, “We had an interaction with representatives of the hospitals after the association raised its demand. The administration will soon start the process to clear the dues.”