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Home / West-bengal / Calcutta / Private hospitals refuse to follow new rates fixed for pathological and radiological tests Private hospitals refuse to follow new rates fixed for pathological and radiological tests The health centres will write to West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission for clarification
Private hospitals in Calcutta have refused to follow the new rates fixed by the state regulatory commission for pathological and radiological tests and said they would seek a clarification.
The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission had on Friday capped the rates private hospitals can charge for a number of pathological and radiological tests.
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A private hospital, the commission’s order states, cannot charge more than Rs 400 for chest X-ray PA view and more than Rs 5,200 for an H
The Bengal government on Tuesday requested the Centre to allow it to provide Covid vaccines to private hospitals for about four lakh people who have taken their first dose at private units across the state and are awaiting the second.
The Centre till Tuesday night neither rejected nor approved the request.
The state government has drawn up an alternative plan so that the recipients could get the second jab at a government facility nearest to the private unit where they were administered the first dose. If the plan is adopted, the recipients will be given time slots for their second dose at government units.
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A senior official of the state health department admitted on Wednesday that the oxygen supply to the hospital was not enough to cater to all patients.
Ajay Chakraborty, the state’s director of health services, called it an “unprecedented situation”.
Reports of patients dying because of oxygen shortage have come from many parts of the country, but supply in the state was reported to be adequate so far.