Free treatment for EWS patients: Govt quashes advisory to private hospitals to not accept income certificates

Delhi | Saturday | 25th March, 2017

Summary:

Private hospitals have been asked to accept income certificates and to link eligibility of treatment to the prevailing minimum wages. All families, whose monthly income is Rs 9,568 (minimum wages in Delhi), will also be directly eligible for free treatment”. Express Photo: Abhinav Saha Patients can now give an undertaking and avail free treatment. Patients can now give an undertaking and avail free treatment. With the revised advisory, the PR category, who were earlier left out, can also avail the free treatment..