Summary:
The Commission has pronounced its judgement after it saw all the three hospitals had exorbitantly charged three patients each flouting the Covid guidelines issued by the Commission. In case of three patients, the hospitals have to come up with revised bills and would return the money taken in excess. The WBCERC has asked the AMRI Salt Lake to hold free paediatric counseling at a slum situated at Duttabad while Dhakuria AMRI will carry out the same counseling at a slum in Panchanantala Gobindapur. The Commission has also directed the AMRI group to provide free-of-cost food to those who will attend the paediatric counseling at these slums. "We also find it unfair that the Commission's pre-emptive assumption that overbilling is a norm at AMRI Hospitals even if the patients do not register complaints with the Commission," reads the press statement..