Sunday, 09 May 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
Taking cognizance of the complaints that the private hospitals are refusing treatment of Covid patients under the Atal Ayushman Uttarakhand Yojana (AAUY), Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana and State Government Health Scheme (SGHS), the state administration has directed all the hospitals in the panels of these schemes to treat Covid patients free of cost as per the package. The administration has also warned that punitive action would be initiated against the hospitals refusing treatment of Covid patients under the health schemes.
The chief executive officer (CEO) of the state health authority (SHA) Arunendra Singh Chauhan said that it has come to the notice that some panelled hospitals are not giving cashless treatment to Covid patients which is against the norms. He claimed that the bills of the hospitals are being cleared within a week of their uploading on the system. Chauhan said that in view of the pandemic the hospitals are specially directed to ensure that the beneficiaries of the schemes don’t face any problem. He informed that the hospitals with NABL accreditation are given Rs 8000 for isolation bed, Rs 12000 for ventilator care without ICU and Rs 14400 for ICU with ventilator care per day. Similarly the non NABL hospitals are given Rs 6400, Rs 10,400 and Rs 12000 per day for isolation, ventilator without ICU and ventilator with ICU respectively. He added that the expenses on testing, treatment, food and PPE kits are included in the package while medicines such as Remdesivir, Favipiravir and Tacilizumab would be made available at actual rates to the beneficiary in the panelled hospitals. Chauhan said that all the beneficiaries should be provided cashless treatment in the panelled hospitals failing which the hospitals would be removed from the panel.
