Nagpur: Although the central government has been condying allegations of vaccinations in private hospitals, Kingsway Hospitals have earned around RS34 Lakh more by charge of RS200 per dosage as registration fees in addition to fixed rates.
By starting vaccination in more hospitals, charging additional costs on behalf of registration fees are in the previous news too.
Kingsway has claimed it stopped collecting registration fees in June, but on Sundays a recipient of the Bill shared July 7 which shows the RS200 registration fee.
According to vaccination records, Kingsway has provided 23,3368 the first dose on July 7, 16,965 is an ordinary person while the rest is the beneficiary of the company, which is indicted differently.
Given that the hospital has collected an extra RS200 from ordinary people to this date, extra income stands at RS33.93LEkh.
On June 10, Amit Somani, Director of Kingsway Hospital, said, “Now we charge the RS780 for vaccination and RS100 for hospital registration.
In general, we charge RS200 as a registration fee for OPD for new patients and can be used throughout the year.
But for Vaccination 50% discount is being given.
We assume the revised charges will apply from June 21, but we were asked to implement it from June 9 “when TI shared bills July 7 with him on Sunday, Somani said,” IT (fixed level) was implemented at 7 July.
We returned those who approach us.
“Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has not taken any action even though residents highlighted violations on Twitter for two weeks ago.
Entrepreneurs Anand Chandwani asks what the need to collect registration fees when the receiver has registered online on the co-win system.
“I have taken my daughter for vaccinations at Kingsway Hospital on July 7.
I oppose an additional RS200 fee but the hospital staff told me it was obliged.
It was recovered from everyone.
I have not received a call for a refund even though it’s reluctant to pay it,” He said.
Toi spoke to several hospitals, such as Wockhardt, Alexis and Orange City, who also drives vaccination.
Their administration claimed they did not collect registration fees.
“We fainted by the decorative office note for private covid vaccination centers on June 8 to fill the RS780 per dose, where we had a dose of RS630 per dose through the co-win portal on July 12 to obtain a covishield vaccine stock on July 16, and limited RS150 costs Per dosage as a service fee in totality.
Ochri management led by Udaybhaskar Nair has clarified that Covid vaccination drives must be carried out as a non-profit activity to strengthen government efforts to ensure complete vaccination of all citizens who qualify in December 2021, “said Dr.
Anup Marar , Orange City Research Institute.