The Mumbai Municipal Corporation administration had been receiving complaints from the past about difficulties in getting beds for patients in private hospitals. When the reason for this was investigated by the administration, a shocking thing has come to the fore.According to the Economic Times report, BMC commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal identified the matter when he received complaints about lack of beds in private hospitals. It was learned that in the metropolis, COVID patients are getting admitted in private hospitals and are consuming Molnupiravir medicine. The reason for hospitalization has emerged that health insurance companies have a rule that insurance claims are valid only if the patient is hospitalized for at least one day. Outpatient department patients do not get health insurance cover.
According to the BMC commissioner, even mild symptomatic COVID patients are getting admitted to hospitals for one to two days to prepare their health insurance claims and due to this there is a problem of beds in private hospitals. The BMC commissioner has asked private hospitals to inform them in writing about this so that they can talk to insurance companies in this regard and instead of admitting COVID patients to the hospital when unnecessary, they are recognized as outpatient department patients. Keeping their insurance claim approved. Now the administration is also going to pay special attention to how many patients of COVID are being admitted in private hospitals and the treatment of non-essential patients should be done without admission.