Exposed: Aluva hospital charged youth Rs 1.67 lakh, made auto driver pay Rs 25k for 1 day

Express News Service
KOCHI: A video on social media exhibiting the harrowing expertise of a youth at Charakas Anwar Memorial Hospital, Aluva, after being admitted there for Covid therapy has uncovered non-public hospitals fleecing Covid sufferers and their kin. A day after the incident, the ordeal of a 54-year-old man, who was admitted to the identical hospital for Covid therapy, has additionally come to gentle. While the hospital authorities slapped a whopping Rs 1.6-lakh invoice on the primary affected person, the autorickshaw driver was charged Rs 25,000 for a single day’s therapy.

The hospital authorities didn’t inform the autorikshaw driver or his relative in regards to the therapy bills earlier and supply ample therapy and medical care to the one who was admitted to the hospital on May 5. When they requested for discharge the following day, the hospital demanded them to pay Rs 25,880. An FIR lodged by the Aluva East police on fees of dishonest cited that the Anwar Hospital authorities haven’t displayed the costs and fees of the tools and charged Rs 12,880 for a PPE equipment costing Rs 550 out there. The criticism was lodged by Naseer Muhammed, a resident of Edathala and brother-in-law of the affected person, on Sunday.

The affected person, Ibrahim, was admitted to Anwar Hospital on Wednesday after he developed extreme fever whereas in quarantine at his home. Ibrahim is the only real breadwinner of the household comprising three daughters and his spouse.“We admitted him in Anwar Hospital fearing that he would develop pneumonia, but at the time of admission, the hospital authorities demanded us to pay Rs 50,000 as security. We paid Rs 25,000 as we had only that much money at the time. When a bed was allotted in a treatment centre at Muttom under Choornikkara panchayat, we requested the hospital to discharge him the next morning. They were not ready but, following our pressure, they gave a bill of Rs 28,880,” mentioned Naseer Muhammed. 

The hospital doesn’t have required services and there was just one nurse to take care of all sufferers admitted within the Covid ward, he added. TNIE on Sunday reported the expertise of 28-year-old Anson Antony who was slapped with a invoice of Rs 1,67,381 for 10 days’ therapy on the similar hospital.  Police invoked Sections 406 (felony breach of belief) and 420 (dishonest) of IPC. Aluva East police mentioned just one case has been registered towards the hospital thus far.