‘Hospitals must try to bring treatment cost further down’

Madurai | Monday | 15th October, 2018

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Radhakrishnan on Saturday appealed to private hospitals to bring down treatment cost. However, he said, the hospitals could try to bring it down further so that even advanced treatment for diseases would become affordable to all sections of society. M.

Ponnuswami, chairman, CII - Tamil Nadu, appealed to the government to increase the ceiling on height of hospital buildings. S.

Natarajan, Collector, spoke on preventive measures taken by the district administration to improve public health and explained how private hospitals could cooperate more efficiently. Rohini Sridhar, chairman, MEDEx 2018, and Chief Operating Officer, Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Madurai, said the conference not only brought together hospitals and sellers of medical equipment but also had sessions to enlighten medical practitioners on regulatory framework..