Taking serious cognisance of the complaints about private hospitals fleecing the Covid-19 patients across the State, Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Sunday announced that the State Government separate auditors were being appointed to vet the hospital bills of pandemic patients in each private hospital.
Tope made the announcement to this effect after NCP chief Sharad Pawar reviewed the coronavirus situation at Solapur in western Maharashtra.
In two tweets put out after the review meeting, Tope said: “A meeting was held to held under the chairmanship of NCP chief Minister to review the Corona situation in Solapur district. At the meeting, it was decided to examine the bills issued to Covid-19 patients by the private hospitals be examined by auditors. For this purpose, separate auditors have been appointed for each private hospital”.
Meanwhile, in a disburbing development, a suspected Covid-19 patient jumped down from the 5th floor of a Corona hospital at Kalyan and died on the spot.
The Thane district authorities, under whom Kalyan falls, have ordered an inquiry to the circumstances leading to the alleged suicide by the suspect Corona virus patient.