Covid-19 | High Court asks Delhi govt. to reconsider its capping of daily treatment charges
The Hindu
“This circular is nearly a year old. The situation has changed,” the court said while adding that hospitals would incur losses if they stuck to the original cap of ₹18,000.
The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the Delhi government to "revisit" its June 2020 circular capping the per-day package rates for COVID-19 treatments in private hospitals at ₹18,000 saying at this rate "hospitals will run at loss" in the current scenario. "This circular is nearly a year old. The situation, what it was then (June 2020) and what it is today is drastically different," a Bench of Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Rekha Palli said highlighting that the medical infrastructure and manpower have become a scarcity due to the surge in Covid cases. The Bench said that today if a Covid patient wanted a paramedic staff or a private attendant at home, he will be hard pressed to find one.
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