The state health authority (SHA) has threatened to take punitive against the Arihant Advanced Surgery and Fertility centre Shastrinagar, Dehradun for not providing cashless treatment to the patients of Covid under the Atal Ayushman Uttarakhand Yojana (AAUY) and State Government Health Scheme (SGHS). In a notice to Dr Abhishek Jain of the hospital, director, Hospital Management SHA, Dr A K Goyal said that the authority has received many complaints against the hospital that it is not providing cashless treatments under the schemes. It also said that the hospital authorities never pick up phone calls made by the authority. The notice warned that the empanelment of the hospital would be suspended and action under clinical establishment act would be taken against it if the hospital fails to mend its ways.
