Punjab: Oswal Hospital gets de-panelled from govt scheme

A written explaination was demanded from the hospital’s end regarding the matter when several complaints were received in the department looking after the scheme as well as during the Chief Minister’s Sangat Darshan. However, after the demand was made by the authorities the reply turned out to be non-satisfactory. “The decision was taken when the reply was not found satisfactory”,  government sources informed The tribune report.

The Health Minister of the state, Surjit Kumar Jyani said that in total 19 hospitals were empanelled by the state government in order to provide cashless treatment to the cancer patients from the date of diagnostics. However, the hospital in question violated basic norms under the scheme guidelines, which resulted in its removal from the list.

In another recent case in the state, a hospital “Grecian Hospital” was also dis-empanelled from the list of hospitals that come under the scheme for charging money from patients diagnosed with cancer instead of providing them cashless treatment under the scheme.