Government de-panels three hospitals; CMO suspends 4
| Date :03-Jul-2019 |
Principal Correspondent:
A lot of problems in receipt of payments where hospitals have to pay from their own pockets
Though hospitals in Nagpur are performing well, some are violating the norms or failing to provide healthcare to people from poor strata by not implementing various health schemes. Taking serious cognizance of complaints from patients, Department of Public Health has depanelled three hospitals while Chief Minister Office (CMO), too, has blacklisted some hospitals. The reason both the agencies cited as overcharging or showing adamancy by hospitals till they get their payment.
Department of Public Health runs Mahatma Phule Jan Aarogya Yojna (MPJAY) and some hospitals voluntarily agreed to get empanelled. There are about 1,000 procedures in the scheme and the distribution of patients is done on the basis of their financial condition and supportive documents. The amount to be paid by Government is different but fixed for every procedure to be given to the hospital. There were some complaints by the patients and their relatives that hospitals charge more than the amount prescribed for the procedure. Recently, Meditrina Hospital was depanelled for not following the norms. Similarly, acting on the complaints, and inspecting the reality, the MPJAY section had depanelled G T Padole Hospital, CARE Hospital and City Hospital, Kamptee.
Chief Minister Office in Nagpur also provide help to the needy patients for their treatment. It also received some complaints regarding hospitals’ refusal to treat patients because of non-receipt of money. CMO too blacklisted four hospitals. They include New Era Hospital, Lakadganj; HCG NCHRI near Kamptee road, CARE Hospital, Wardha road and Venus Hospital, Indora. Several hospitals those still are in list complaint, they don’t get payments from Government in time. It takes lot of time but while treating patients hospitals can not leave any stone unturned.
Hospitals have to incur the expenditure and there is a long queue of patients. One hospital owner told ‘The Hitavada’, “Treating one or two patients by spending money from our own pockets is ok. But treating patients and then wait for long to get money is very difficult. We don’t have good experience at CMO where the in-charge does not respond well. One can ask patients their experience. Though Collectorate sanctions the amount, the in-charge at CMO sits on the file which is not good. There are examples where people have to use their good office and get the money. In fact we are of the opinion that we should welcome the action of getting blacklisted or depanneled as we will not have headache of going to Government and beg the money.”