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The health ministry will start consultations with state governments this week for suggestions on fixing charges for treatment at healthcare centres across the country...
This follows the Supreme Court last week raising concern over the wide variation in treatment costs between government and private healthcare centres..
It directed the Centre to expeditiously fix treatment charges to be paid by patients, giving six weeks for the same...
Highlighting the stark difference in treatment costs between government and private healthcare centres, the apex court asserted that citizens have a fundamental right to healthcare, and the government cannot evade its responsibility in ensuring this right...
The Association of Healthcare Providers (AHPI), which represents medium and small hospitals, will also file an intervention in the Supreme Court on behalf of the industry this week, Girdhar Gyani, director general of the association, told ET...
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