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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 33% Muslims, 20% Dalits & Adivasis ‘faced discrimination at hospitals’, Oxfam survey finds -Mohana Basu

33% Muslims, 20% Dalits & Adivasis ‘faced discrimination at hospitals’, Oxfam survey finds -Mohana Basu

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published Published on Nov 24, 2021   modified Modified on Nov 26, 2021

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According to the Oxfam survey, 9% of respondents said they had to lose a day’s wage to get themselves vaccinated against Covid-19.

New Delhi: At least one-third of Muslims and over 20 per cent Dalits and Adivasis said they have been discriminated on the grounds of religion, caste, or because of illness in a hospital or by a healthcare professional, according to a survey by Oxfam India.

The survey — titled ‘Securing Rights of Patients in India’ — provides a perspective on the plight of patients and citizens in the healthcare system. It was released Tuesday.

According to the survey, as many as 58 per cent of respondents said they were not provided with an estimated cost of treatment or procedure before it was started when they or their close relatives were hospitalised in the past 10 years.

Thirty-one per cent respondents reported being denied case papers, patient records, investigation reports for treatment or procedure by the hospital even after requesting.

Thirty-five per cent of the women surveyed said that they underwent physical examination by male attendant without a female present in the room.

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