A seven-year-old child from Dengue fever was admitted to a Delhi hospital. He died after being treated for two weeks. Then, after paying his family from the hospital, a bill of 25 thousand dollars is unusual. This is widely criticized by social media.
The Ministry of Health has ordered an investigation into how much the bill was brought.
The BBC reported that a seven-year-old child with dengue fever was admitted to Fortis Memorial Hospital in Delhi this September. There he has been treated for two weeks. Then he died. At the end, the hospital authorities handed over $ 25,000 to one of his family or a bill of about 21 million Indian rupees. A friend of that family first published the topic on Twitter. This tweet has been tweeted at least 10 thousand.
The child's name is Ada Singh. His dengue was diagnosed in August. When the condition deteriorated, the child was admitted to the hospital later this month.
The criticism started in the social media about this unusual bill. The Ministry of Health has taken initiatives to probe the matter. Health Minister JP Nadda said in a tweet message that all necessary steps will be taken in this regard.
The child's family said they have been billed 600 syringes and 1.5 thousand gloves for two weeks. The 20-page full bill has been released on Twitter. It is found that prices of various medicines and medical equipment have been kept high. The price of equipment used to test blood sugar levels is also high.
The FortyThites Memorial Hospital in Delhi, however, said that the bill they provided is correct.
Baby's father Jayant Singh told the media that his son was kept in a ventilation the next day after being hospitalized. Hospital authorities say to the family that the child has little damage to the brain. But in reality there was no MRI. How did the hospital authority reach the decision?
Jayant Singh said that they requested the child to leave the hospital. But the doctors here gave the opposite and died in the hospital, the child died. Even if the hospital authorities want an ambulance to take the body of the child, they refuse to give it. Later, they took ambulances in their own initiative and took the body.
The hospital authorities said that the child was kept in Ventilation, so that the cost was much higher and the bill was kept properly.