Bengaluru: Simmering dissatisfaction with mandatory inpatient care for positive asymptomatic international travelers for Covid-19 on arrival boiled on Monday, with a woman kicking a row of large estimation bills served by a private hospital where her husband, who has returned from it .
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Sunitha R told her husband to pay Rs 3,000 and underwent a compulsory test of RT-PCR on arrival at the airport on December 29.
He felt positive.
He moved to a Bowring hospital for mandatory isolation and was shifted to a private hospital on the same day.
“The hospital should charge according to the BBMP guidelines, but I have received the Bill of Rs 1.
1 lakh,” Sunitha said.
“My husband does not show symptoms, but the hospital runs a series of tests to him and imposes a large fee for laboratory investigators, radiological investigations, physiotherapy and drugs, among others,” Sunitha said.
“Asymptomatic patients must be allowed to insulate houses with strict monitoring instead of being extinguished by the hospital.” However, Manipal Hospital, Jalan Sarjapura, where Sunitha’s husband admitted, insisted that the bill was only an estimate and the last at the time of return.
will be based on the tariff mandated by the government.
But Sunitha said the hospital staff told him that the bill for the first five days had touched Rs 83,000.
Only when he showed the hospital copy of the Public Notification of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara – bought with a lot of trouble – which said the private hospital must charge according to the price set by the government, whether the hospital said that it was only an estimate and not the last bill.
As a Balaasundar, Head of Head Health, BBMP, said the bill presented to the patient’s wife was estimated and the last bill would be calculated based on government rates.
“If international tourists choose private hospitals, they need to pay according to the tariff set by the government.
We have given Flyers choice to isolate in government hospitals too,” said Balalasundar.
BBMP order on December 10, 2021 read, ” published by the government.
“We coordinate with the BBMP authority and comply with the guidelines prescribed for international travelers who are allegedly infected with Omicron variants,” Toi spokesman said.
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