Goa govt hospitals to charge nominal fee from outside patients
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Panaji: The Goa government today announced that they will start charging nominal fee for the patients who are non-residence of the state at the government hospitals from January 1, while locals will continue getting free of cost treatment.
State Health Minister Vishwajit Rane told reporters that the state-run facilities including Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) will charge nominal fee for the patients who are from outside Goa from January 1, 2018.
He said the patients from outside Goa would be charged twenty percent of the fee as prescribed in the states Deen Dayal Swastha Seva Yojana (DDSSY) charged by C category hospitals, which comes to a nominal amount.
Rane said the step was taken to ensure that the locals are given priority in these hospitals as the state government is spending crores of rupees to maintain and upkeep these facilities.
"Nearly 30-40 per cent of the patients on these hospitals arrive from outside the state, specially from Maharashtra and Karnataka. We need to provide treatment on priority to the locals," he said.
State Health Minister Vishwajit Rane told reporters that the state-run facilities including Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) will charge nominal fee for the patients who are from outside Goa from January 1, 2018.
He said the patients from outside Goa would be charged twenty percent of the fee as prescribed in the states Deen Dayal Swastha Seva Yojana (DDSSY) charged by C category hospitals, which comes to a nominal amount.
Rane said the step was taken to ensure that the locals are given priority in these hospitals as the state government is spending crores of rupees to maintain and upkeep these facilities.
"Nearly 30-40 per cent of the patients on these hospitals arrive from outside the state, specially from Maharashtra and Karnataka. We need to provide treatment on priority to the locals," he said.
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