Private hospitals make patients pay through their nose in Odisha
As a result, Covid patients are being forced to seek admission in private hospitals, nursing homes and clinics.
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CUTTACK: Inadequate beds at designated Covid hospitals (DCHs) in the district has forced patients to depend on the private facilities where they are being allegedly exploited with exorbitant bills.Even as the State government has fixed treatment cost for private hospitals, lack of enforcement and monitoring by the authorities has added to the woes of Covid patients.
While the existing two DCHs at SCB MCH having 500 beds is already overcrowded with 616 patients, the beds of other seven DCHs set up at private hospitals remained occupied. As a result, Covid patients are being forced to seek admission in private hospitals, nursing homes and clinics. The authorities of SCB MCH are yet to come up with the proposed third designated Covid hospital havi