Will reconsider current rates of Cov treatment, state assures pvt hosps

Ranchi: The state government on Friday gave the managements of private hospitals in Ranchi and across Jharkhand a verbal assurance to look into the existing rates of Covid-19 treatment. Representatives from various private hospitals sat across the table with health secretary Arun Kumar Singh and flagged their concerns at the department’s campus in Namkum.
The Association of Healthcare Providers India urged the department to remove the existing capping on treatment rates of Covid-19. In an effort to stop overcharging in treatment of coronavirus patients in private hospitals, state health department in April this year fixed the treatment charges from Rs 4,000 per day to Rs 18,000 depending on the class of city, certification of the hospital and the kind of bed occupied.
“In many cases, the government takes action against hospitals over tweets and messages on social media. We urged the government that it should conduct a probe before taking such action,” Yogesh Gambhir, the state president of AHPI, told TOI.