What inflates Covid-19 treatment bills in private hospitals is much the same as what inflated bills in pre-Covid days — huge margins on diagnostics, consumables and medicines. What is new are inflated charges for protective gear and separate charges for bio waste disposal as if hospitals did not have hazardous […]
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In order to decongest hospitals, all asymptomatic patients without comorbidity should be shifted to appropriate Covid Care Centres immediately and hospitals should ensure that no admission is granted to asymptomatic positive patients without comorbidity. These are some of the fresh directives that will come into force from 10 am on […]
New Delhi: Private hospitals are now using the “other” clause to test all patients being admitted, including daycare admissions for dialysis, for Covid-19. Before any procedure, private hospitals are now conducting RT-PCR confirmatory test for Covid-19. Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) guidelines allow only symptomatic patients to be tested. […]
New Delhi | Mumbai: The ongoing Covid-19 outbreak has impacted healthcare companies, which claim declining footfalls as well as rising consumables and staff costs have put their very survival at stake. “The cost of running a Covid hospital is very high and 50% of that are fixed costs,” says Devi […]
Kolkata: Bharti Airtel and Apollo Hospitals Group have unveiled a digital tool that uses AI-based technologies and enables customers to assess their Covid19 risk profile more accurately and take appropriate action. Apollo 24/7, the digital arm of Apollo Hospitals Group, on Monday launched a free digital self-assessment test on the […]
A total of 586 hospitals in the country have been marked as dedicated COVID-19 hospitals with capacity of over one lakh isolation beds and 11,500 ICU beds reserved for coronavirus patients, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday. Addressing a press briefing, Health Ministry’s Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal said the […]
HYDERABAD: Andhra Pradesh, which has been seeing a sharp spike in number of Covid-19 positives linked to Tablighi Jamaat prayers at Nizamuddin recently, has announced placing an order for 3 lakh rapid testing kits for Covid-19. Learning from the experience of other countries with respect to the need of Covid […]
Mumba: Two private hospitals in Mumbai have been sealed after some of their medical staff, including doctors and nurses, tested positive for the novel coronavirus, civic officials said on Monday. Three doctors and 26 nurses tested positive for novel coronavirus in Wockhardt Hospital in Mumbai Central and the facility has […]
NEW DELHI: Testing and treatment for COVID-19 will be free of cost for Ayushman Bharat beneficiaries at private laboratories and empanelled hospitals, the National Health Authority (NHA) said on Saturday. The NHA, which implements the national health insurance scheme, said this will strengthen the country’s response to the novel coronavirus […]
New Delhi: Fifty-one hospitals of the armed forces are being readied to provide treatment to coronavirus-affected people as India reels under rising cases of the pandemic. Military officials said five viral testing laboratories of the services, capable of carrying out COVID-19 tests, have been made part of the national grid […]