Covid-19 Treatment: the need of hours -By Abhishek Barnwal - Lets Care Society

Over 3 lakh cases, 9 thousand deaths and after 1.5 lakh recovery till date, are we still safe?

Actually, the real question arises here is: Are we even safe in hospitals? Are we in good hands? Are we being looted by the hospitals?

As per a report in Mumbai, a man lost his 74 years father and ends up with 16 lakhs bill at a private hospital. Is life worth even after being treated in a private hospital?

Since, no medication or vaccine has been found yet to get rid of this coronavirus. Yet hospitals are charging lakhs for the treatment and in return we don’t even have guarantee of our lives. There is no way a middle class family can get treatment in these private hospitals. The outbreak of covid-19 has turned treatment in private hospitals across India costlier than ever.

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And thinking of govt. hospitals, are the beds enough to treat all the patients? Can they be trusted by their past history?

Well, we don’t have any choice I guess. Either we die in govt. hospitals or we pay lakhs in private hospital and still die.

Instead of thinking about profits, private hospitals have to think about people lives and have to stop over charging.

The State Health Department has announced three slabs of maximum applicable daily tariff for treatment of COVID-19 patients in private hospitals. For this purpose, the hospitals have been classified under two categories — Grade A1/ A2 and Grade A3/A4.

An official release said that Grade A1 and A2 hospitals can collect a maximum of ₹7,500 a day from COVID-19 patients who are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms and have been admitted to the general ward.

The maximum tariff for such patients in the general ward of Grade A3 and A4 hospitals has been fixed at ₹5,000 a day. However, in case of admission to the intensive care unit, all hospitals, irrespective of the grades they fall under, have been instructed to ensure that the charges do not exceed ₹15,000 a day. While the release said that hospitals cannot charge more than the fixed tariff, it did not specify if the tariff included all hospitalization costs. But, smaller hospitals have challenge to keep them running in the midst of the pandemic. They don’t have enough numbers of staffs to run the hospitals.

Despite of all the efforts, there is no certainty of a person’s recovery. Still doctors are trying their best keeping aside the fate of their life. The only thing that’s in our hand is to cooperate with the situation without being panicked.

The proper authorities should be sent to verify the functioning of these hospitals and the fee structures should be revised so that the proper treatment can be reachable to every common citizens of the country.

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