The Pune chapter of the Indian Medical Association is planning to launch a study to determine per bed charges incurred by hospitals every year. They claim to be frustrated by the financial state into which private hospitals have been pushed by the authorities. For long, the hospitals have been claiming to struggle to run their […]

The Special Newborn Care Unit(SNCU) of the Nashik civil hospital is always colourful. If it’s monday, the colour code for SNCU bedsheets is green, if it’s tuesday, the sheets are blue. Similarly, they have colour-code for each day of the week. Not only does it make the unit more attractive, but also this simple measure […]

Private hospitals have written to the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman seeking her help to get the pending dues from government cleared. The government has failed to sanction payments of ₹1,400 crore to private hospitals for providing free treatment under central health schemes. Following this, the hospitals have made several attempts to recover their dues from […]