Denying medical reimbursement for chronic disease treatment in OPD is unreasonable, says HC
Noting that the denial of the claim for medical reimbursement on the ground that it was taken in OPD, is not based on a reasonable classification, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has upheld the single judge's decision directing the Haryana government to reimburse the medical expenses incurred for the treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) of a state government employee's spouse in an OPD setting.
The Division Bench, comprising Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Sudhir Singh observed that the disease being chronic in nature, the treatment, even if taken in OPD, cannot be termed to be not falling in category of emergency treatment, particularly when the disease relating to renal requires a continuous treatment.
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