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Congress govt has left middle class and poor at mercy of pvt hospitals for treatment of COVID: Akali Dal

Chandigarh, July 17, 2020 (Yes Punjab News)

The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today described the steep rates fixed for treatment of COVID – 19 by private hospitals as a sell out to the private sector and demanded they be revised immediately in public interest.

“The astronomical rates for treatment of COVID – 19 has taken private treatment for COVID – 19 out of the purview of the common man who has been put at the mercy of private hospital management”, senior SAD leader Dr Daljit Singh Cheema said in a press release here.

The SAD leader said the government had fixed rates between Rs15000 to Rs 18,000 per day as treatment cost in private hospitals. He said while this fee was difficult to give for even one family member if hospitalised, there was no way a middle class family could give these charge for hospitalisation of two to three members of a family.

Dr Cheema said it was common knowledge that there were no facilities available for treatment at government facilities and late Padamsri Bhai Nirmal Singh had suffered because of lack of such facilities. He said in such circumstances the Punjab government should bear cost of treatment of the middle class and poor sections of society.

He also reminded the government that the SAD-BJP government had taken the responsibility for treatment of cancer patients on itself and it used to give Rs. 1.5 lakh per patient to the hospital on behalf of each patient had had spent Rs. 470 under this head. He said similarly during SAD- BJP tenure the government bore expenses of treatment of Hepatitis C and 39,000 patients availed benefit of the scheme.


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