Exploitation of doctors and patients in private hospitals –doctor exposes : Minister must lay down policy

(Lanka-e-News- 09.Oct.2015, 11.00PM)  The  exploitation of patients and plunder raging in leading private hospitals , was exposed by a doctor who took pains to make a complaint  to Lanka e news.

The doctor revealed that  a sum of Rs. 2500.00 to Rs. 3000.00 is  charged by these hospitals as doctor’s fee per day  from indoor patients , and the doctor is paid only a  paltry sum  of Rs. 400.00 per hour , and the balance is  gobbled up by the private hospital.  Though on the face of it , this looks fair, the illegality and injustice in this system was exposed by the Doctor as follows:

If there are 100 indoor patients in the hospital , the total amount collected by the hospital per day from them is Rs. 250,000.00. There are about 10 in- house doctors to treat them. Hence , the  total disbursement made to the ten doctors is :   400X24x 100 =   Rs. 96000.00 only. That is ,the hospital by ‘selling’ the doctors is siphoning over Rs. 150,000.00 per day into its account.This is unfair and illegal because under the guise of fees due to  doctor , the hospitals are resorting to exploitation.

The doctor commenting further said , wither the private hospitals must reduce the fees charged from the patients or the increase the payments  to the doctors.Although  the GMOA was notified of this , and intially the latter voiced its protests  , later it  turned silent. Hence the doctor told Lanka e news that he hoped that the new Minister of health Rajitha Senaratne at least will  address this issue .      

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by     (2015-10-09 20:36:41)