As part of the new system, at least 25 per cent procurement will be kept open for the private sector and there will also be a cap of Rs 150 on the amount private hospitals can charge, over and above the cost of purchase from the manufacturer.
The complaints, mostly regarding excessive charges for drugs, oxygen, beds, lodged on the helpdesk numbers and the Email of Director Health Services are being addressed by issuing show cause notices to some of the private hospitals empanelled to treat Covid patients.
The residents in their complaint have alleged that the garbage lying strewn in their area was raising a stink and was leading to health problems and the spread of diseases.
The Indian Express had covered the stories of 13 such families (headlined Farewell, Dear Father, June 7) who had been left devastated by the second wave of the pandemic, losing their loved ones and their sole breadwinners.
The Indian Express brings to you the devastation wreaked by novel coronavirus on numerous families across Chandigarh who lost their sole breadwinner, leaving their children to fend for themselves.
In the last 24 hours, 2,164 samples have been tested. As many as 162 patients were discharged from various facilities. A total of 3,79,547 people have been vaccinated in Chandigarh so far.
As many as 72 people tested positive for Covid-19 in Panchkula on Friday, with the district officially reporting no new Covid-related deaths in the last 24 hours.
ED is conducting the probe under the supervision of Assistant Director, ED, Swaraj Pal Singh Nagill. AK Trading was registered with its address as a small dwelling unit in Khuda Jassu village.
Chandigarh was followed by Delhi, Puducherry and Lakshadweep (68), Andaman & Nicobar (67), J&K and Ladakh (66), and Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu (62) in the list of top UTs.
Garg has written that a significant portion of the city’s population has been directly affected by the second wave of Covid-19 due to unavoidable curfew and the lockdown restrictions imposed by the administration.
Sood Dharamshala and Dhanwantri in Chandigarh which had been erected to cater to the rising covid patients are being vacated, while all doctors as well as para medical staff posted there has also been recalled and posted in GMCH.
