Nagpur: A Dighori resident’s complaint regarding excess billing by a private hospital in Bhande Plot was rejected by the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC).
In his February 15 order, additional municipal commissioner Jalaj Sharma stated that the billing was done as per the 80% quota under capped rates and that no deficiency was found in the supporting documents audited by the civic body.
As per the woman’s complaint, her husband was admitted to the hospital on December 9 and remained there till December 29. The hospital charged her Rs6.3 lakh for the 20-day stay. Having exhausted all her savings, the woman, who also borrowed money, was forced to shift her husband to IGGMCH where he breathed his last.
“I was asked to clear a Rs3.96 lakh medicine bill and Rs3.01 lakh hospitalization charges and take him to a ‘better’ place. I was shocked to hear that as I assumed it was the best hospital for us,” she said.
The complainant said, “I told them I couldn’t pay this much. After a lot of pleading, they slashed it from Rs6.92 lakh to Rs6.3 lakh. Since I had to shift my husband, I took hand loans and paid all the dues on December 30,” she said.
Her major grievance was against the hospital which allegedly didn’t warn her that the chances of her husband’s survival were bleak. “Since day one, there was no improvement in his health. I was positive while my son was busy with his engineering exams. I would have admitted my husband in a government hospital if there was no chance of his survival. I have borrowed Rs44 lakh from people. We have exhausted all our savings. I have lost my job too,” she said.
A spokesperson of the hospital refuted all the allegations and said the patient’s condition was critical when he was admitted.
The man, a stamp paper vendor, was having fever so his family doctor had advised him to go for the antigen test which was negative. On December 5, the RTPCR test found him positive. On December 9, he became breathless and a CT scan showed deep infection in the lungs.
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