These days, people don’t get proper medical healthcare, if they don’t have sufficient money to spend on it. In government hospitals, there is lack of facilities, which is why people prefer being admitted in private hospitals. However, when it comes to private hospitals, the bills are HUGE.
Since saving the life of loved ones is important, some don’t give priority to money at all. They are ready to spend anything and everything the hospital charges for appropriate treatment. But looks as if hospitals have started taking an advantage of this thing.
Recent case that has come to light is that of Gurgaon’s Fortis hospital. A 7 year old girl Adya suffering from dengue was admitted in the hospital, but surprisingly Fortis charged her family more than 1 lakh per day. She was admitted for 15 days i.e. 31st of August to 14th of September, and the total billing amount went up to 16 lakhs. Sadly, she passed away. However, parents were shocked to see this 20 page lengthy bill, and they demanded an investigation for the same.
One of Adya’s dad’s friend took to Twitter to bring this matter to light.
One of my batchmate's 7 year old was in @fortis_hospital for ~15 days for Dengue. Billed 18 lakhs including for 2700 gloves. She passed away at the end of it. Corrupt assholes.
— D🔭 (@DopeFloat) November 17, 2017
More facts since people asked for it. Read thread and see snaps.
1. Charged for a whopping 660 syringes. They pumped a 7 year old with an average of ~40 syringes a day. Parents kept insisting on MRI/CT Scan to check if she was even alive since she was on ventilator since day 5 pic.twitter.com/NvZKQgp9Pj
— D🔭 (@DopeFloat) November 19, 2017
The family was billed 2.17 lakhs for blood tests and 17,142 for 2700 gloves.
Have a look at the overall breakup;
Admission Charge – Rs 1250
Blood Bank – Rs 61, 315
Diagnostics – Rs 29, 290
Doctor charges – Rs 53, 900
Drugs – Rs 3, 96, 732.48
Equipment Charge – Rs 71,000
Investigations – Rs 2, 17, 594
Medical and Surgical Procedures – Rs 2, 85, 797
Medical Consumables – Rs 2, 73, 394
Miscellaneous – Rs 15, 150
Room Rent – Rs 1, 74,000
Discount – Rs 20,000
Total Bill – Rs 15, 79, 322.48
As of now, the hospital isn’t providing daily breakup;
Hospital refusing to provide a daily breakup till date
— D🔭 (@DopeFloat) November 19, 2017
After all these tweets, the Health Minister replied;
Please provide me details on [email protected] .We will take all the necessary action. https://t.co/dq273L66cK
— Jagat Prakash Nadda (Modi Ka Parivar) (@JPNadda) November 20, 2017
After all this, even Fortis replied on Twitter; they said they will look into the matter…
Dear Sir, please enable us with the patient details and Fortis facility name for investigating the case. Please be assured that a thorough investigation will be carried out and the outcomes will be shared with you. (1/2)
— Fortis Healthcare (@fortis_hospital) November 18, 2017
You may share your details directly at [email protected] (2/2)
— Fortis Healthcare (@fortis_hospital) November 18, 2017
Reports said,
“They had refused to give Adya a death certificate. And even asked the family to arrange for another hospital’s ambulance to take her. This was because the hospital didn’t want a dengue death on their hands.”
Is this the way, hospitals are treating patients? Has this become a new business?
