Now COVID treatment rates at private hospitals in Assam to range from Rs 4000 to Rs 15000

The cost fixed include registration charges, bed and boarding charges, nursing, consultant charges, blood transfusion, oxygen charges, medicine and drugs as a treatment protocol, pathology and radiology test charges, medical procedures, diagnostic tests, bio-medical waste disposal and sanitisation, PPE kits, N-95 masks among others.

Additional cost has to be borne for high-end investigations like C.T chest/HRCT chest/Di dimer and high-end medicines like Remdesivir and Tocilizumab among others, the minister said.

The rates fixed will be applicable for the patient under treatment till they test COVID negative and any subsequent treatment shall be according to regular rates of the hospital, Mahanta said.

The charges for the treatment of COVID patients should be made known to the public and will be monitored by the Director of Health Services.

All private hospitals must admit the patients immediately, according to the admission protocols and the emphasis should be on patient care.

The rates fixed by the government will come into force with immediate effect and will remain until further orders.

The minister said that it has been also decided to set ICU Pediatric wards in the seven Medical College Hospitals in the state and in the district hospitals.

In the medical colleges 320 ICU beds and in the district hospitals 250 such beds will be set up within a month, he added.

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