Nashik: The Hospital Owners’ Association Nashik (HOAN), the apex body of over 150 private hospitals of the city, has demanded a re-look at the Covid treatment charges.
The state government, on June 1, had revised the rates for the treatment of Covid patients at private hospitals.
Office-bearers of the HOAN said it would be impossible for them to provide treatment to Covid patients at the government rates. They said the treatment charges in private hospitals in other states such as Rajasthan, MP, Delhi and Gujarat were much higher and feasible for the private hospital owners.
Raj Nagarkar, vice-president of the association, said that treatment of a Covid patient in ICU with ventilator support is Rs 17,000 a day in MP and only Rs 6,700 in Maharashtra.
He said the salaries of doctors, nurses and health workers on Covid duties have gone up and even the prices of medical oxygen, PPE kits, gloves, pulse oximeters, oxygen concentrators, monitors have increased two to three times.
The association claims that the hospitals would run into losses at the current rates.
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