Vrinchi Hospitals which was stopped from treating Covid19 for its alleged unethical methods of billing the patients, approached the Telangana HC on Friday questioning the decision of the government. However, a bench of Chief Justice Raghavendra Chauhan and Justice B Vijaysen Reddy called the bluff of the hospital and said it should have adhered to the fee capping as told by the government.
When hospital’s counsel said patients in ICU are being treated and cancellation of their treatment midway would affect their lives, the judges described ‘ICU patients theory’ as a fig leaf the hospital was using to challenge the government’s action. “If your concern for the lives of the patients was so genuine, then you should have adhered to the fee capping GOs issued by the state. Under the pretext of patients, you came to this court,” the HC told the counsel. The government, on August 4 cancelled the permission to the hospital to treat Covid patients. The HC also refused to hear the matter urgently.
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