Haryana govt hospitals will charge more if you don't show local residence proof

Indoor admission fee, bed of general ward, various blood, urine, stool and culture tests, X-ray and platelet counts, which were hitherto free, are now chargeable ranging from Rs 10 to Rs 500.

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Government hospitals in Haryana are going to get costly for people seeking medical tests with the introduction of a gazette notification from the health department, that charges people who don't have local resident proofs.

Indoor admission fee, bed of general ward, various blood, urine, stool and culture tests, X-ray and platelet counts, which were hitherto free, are now chargeable ranging from Rs 10 to Rs 500. The health department has also increased the price of bed of private rooms (Per day), MLC and duplicate copy of MLC from Rs 100 to Rs 250.

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Mail Today has the excess the copy of gazette notification issued from the office of Amit Jha, the Principle Secretary of state health department. The notification was approved by Governor, Kaptan Singh Solanki and was effective from a week ago.

VK Rajora, Chief Medical Officer of Gurugram, also admitted about the gazette notification being received and which is being implemented in all government run hospitals. Besides Gurugram, the order has been implemented in other 21 districts as well.

ANTI-POOR POLICY?

"As per the notification, the order had to be implemented with immediate effect after being issued on July 7, 2017, but the district administration waited for the state health ministry's final nod until a week ago. And as soon as we got the green signal, we implemented it," Rajora said.

The new gazette notification is being considered as anti poor-policy with adversely affecting deprived who cannot afford expensive treatment from highend multispecialty hospitals. Districts such as Gurugram, Faridabad, Sonipat and Panipat have large number of migrant people living and working as labourers in the industries. They do not have local documental proofs like Aadhar card or voter cards. Many of the labourers don't even have Rs 10 to pay for the treatment.

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