More than a month after Delhi govt capped rates for Covid treatment, patients say hospitals don't disclose this information and insurance companies don't cover the excess amount.
The mix-up was discovered when the brother of the Muslim Covid victim slipped Rs 500 to a cemetery worker to get one last look at her before her burial.
According to the FIR, the complainant is a senior official of the Delhi Health Department, who also alleged the hospital was not using RT-PCR app while collecting Covid samples.
Arvind Kejriwal's decision to reserve Delhi’s hospital beds exclusively for city residents, which LG Anil Baijal overturned, is a classic example of the playbook the CM has perfected.
The Delhi High Court took suo motu cognisance of the issue based on reports that senior and junior resident doctors at six hospitals didn't receive salaries from March onwards.
As a practising doctor, I discovered large question marks on claims of a trustful patient-doctor relationship in the past. The routine dehumanisation of underprivileged patients remains a rarely mentioned topic.