TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2024
Team Herald
Panjim: Following the strong backlash from the public and opposition, the State government is likely to revise the whopping “capped” rates for treatment of COVID-19 patients in private hospitals.
Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said that he had a discussion with Health Minister Vishwajit Rane on the rates fixed by the committee for COVID treatment in private hospitals. “We are looking into the matter. We will revise the rates,” said Sawant, while responding to Rane’s statement that the file pertaining to the rates has been moved to the CM for a review.
The govt recently capped the rent for a bed in a general ward of a private hospital at Rs 12,000 per day for Covid patients. The rates for rooms - on a twin sharing basis - was capped at Rs 15,000 per day; and Rs 18,000 per day was the upper limit set for a single private room; while Rs 25,000 per day for a bed in an ICU with a ventilator.
The charges include all regular expenses including bed charges, nursing services, resident doctor fee, nutritional diet, PPE kits for the staff and routinely prescribed medicines, but is exclusive of charges incurred for consulting a specialist, an intensivist, a diagnostic intensivist, or the cost of special drugs or equipment or any other procedures or surgeries carried out during the treatment.
