UP MLA seeks audit of private hospitals accused of overcharging during pandemic, shoots letter to PM, CM

A number of complaints have been made against many private hospitals in UP's Gautam Buddh Nagar for inflating medical bills during the Covid crisis.

The issue of overcharging by many private hospitals across the country has reached the doorstep of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Following a number of complaints against many private hospitals for inflating medical bills amid the Covid-19 crisis, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator from Jewar assembly area of Greater Noida has written a letter to PM Modi and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath demanding an audit of such private hospitals. “I have not complained against any particular hospital. The doctor community is working like heroes during the pandemic but many private hospitals have forgotten their social responsibilities. It is time to wake their conscience, an audit is required for such hospitals who are accused of overcharging,” said Greater Noida (Jewar) MLA Dhirendra Singh. He said some hospitals force patients to deposit extra money for oxygen at a time when the pandemic is raging in the country, some levy extra ‘emergency charges’ on a CT scan, and many have made bills amounting to lakhs of rupees for critical and non-critical patients.