Delhi Hospital charges whooping Rs 1.8 crore for COVID treatment, MP writes to Mandaviya
The Congress MP said that the government should bring a bill to immediately appoint a regulator with powers to check such types of incidents.;
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New Delhi: Congress MP Manish Tewari has written to Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya after reports that a Delhi based private hospital charged Rs 1.8 crore from a patient for treatment of Covid.
The Congress leader demanded that to avoid such incidents, a regulator should be appointed.
In the letter to the Health Minister, Tewari wrote, "I would urge you to immediately call for an explanation as to why and how did the hospital charge such an exorbitant sum of money from a patient irrespective of how unwell he or she might be."
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