Jalandhar: The deputy commissioner of Jalandhar has ordered registration of a FIR from a private hospital for alleged malpractices in conducting a Covid care centre and showcause notice into a scanning facility for overcharging for CT scan of a Covid patient.
On May 18, DC Ghanshyam Thori had suspended level-II covid care centre (for new admissions) in Shamsher Hospital following a preliminary report filed by the health police had flagged malpractices and overcharging.
The action followed a complaint filed by relatives of a patient who’d died.
The complainants had alleged the individual, who had been sick, was hurried into Shamsher Hospital, where he had been declared in level-II covid care without RT-PCR test.
The complainant had alleged the individual had been was granted therapy of level-III in spite of the fact that hospital wasn’t entitled to perform this consequently placing the life span of individual in severe danger.
The complainant had levied allegations of all medications and injections.
In a communiqué to the commissioner of police, the DC stated,”Prima facie, it seems to be case match for evaluation by law enforcement department.
If allegations are substantiated through probe, an instance could be enrolled under applicable provisions of legislation against Shamsher Hospital.
” The health division committee at its preliminary report regarding the hospital had whined that there had been mismatch between medications administered and issued, usage of expired medication for treatment in addition to opting for a laboratory which wasn’t eligible to run Covid test.
However on Thursday, district government also issued a showcause notice to Kap Scan & Diagnostic Centre for alleged overcharging in CT scan of a Covid-19 patient.
DC Thori said that a complaint was obtained from urge D S Bawa the center had demanded Rs 5,000 for CT scan of a Covid-19 individual, who’s also an urge as the state government had given Rs 2,000 with this particular evaluation to get Covid-19 patients.
Showcause note has requested the scanning facility to supply its excuse.