Andhra Pradesh - Visakhapatnam

Fall in line or face action, corporate hospitals told

VISAKHAPATNAM: Corporate hospitals cannot refuse patients falling under the Arogya Sri health insurance scheme and any deviation from the MoU signed with them would not be tolerated, Minister for Medical Education and Health Insurance Galla Aruna Kumari said here on Saturday.

The DMHO would be directed to convene a meeting with the representatives of the corporate hospitals of the Arogya Sri network and tell them that the scheme should be run successfully, Ms. Aruna Kumari told reporters when they pointed out that the patients were complaining about the corporate hospitals that refused to admit them even though they were eligible under the Arogya Sri. She also recalled that 17 hospitals have been blacklisted for failing to provide treatment according to the MoUs signed with them.

Ms. Aruna Kumari visited the King George Hospital to review the implementation of Arogya Sri. When pointed out that the Government hospitals were not having sufficient strength of doctors to treat Arogya Sri patients, she suggested that they could engaged doctors from out side like the private hospitals were doing. Superintendent of KGH M.V.R.J. Somayajulu, Superintendents of ENT, Chest, Regional Eye Hospital and Women’s Hospital explained about the needs of their respective hospitals.

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