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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 'We exhausted our savings to pay the hospital' -Parth MN

'We exhausted our savings to pay the hospital' -Parth MN

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published Published on Jun 23, 2021   modified Modified on Jun 25, 2021

-RuralIndiaOnline.org

Poor public infrastructure, unaffordable private medical care and limited access to the state health insurance scheme are pushing Covid patients and their families into long-term debt in Marathwada 

Eight days after testing positive for Covid-19, Ramling Sanap died in the hospital where he was being treated for the infection. But it wasn’t the virus that killed him.

A few hours before he died, Ramling, 40, had phoned his wife, Rajubai, from the hospital. “He was in tears when he found out how much his treatment was costing,” says his nephew, 23-year-old Ravi Morale. “He thought he’d have to sell his two-acre farmland to pay the hospital bill.”

Deep Hospital in Maharashtra's Beed city, where Ramling was admitted since May 13, had charged Rs. 1.6 lakh for his treatment, says Pramod Morale, Rajubai's brother. “We somehow paid it in two instalments, but the hospital was asking for another 2 lakh rupees,” he says. “They told the patient instead of his family. What was the need to burden him?”

The thought of the hospital bill, nearly double the family's annual income, was overwhelming to Ramling. In the wee hours of May 21, he walked out of the Covid ward and hanged himself in the hospital corridor.

Rajubai, 35, had tried to pacify her distressed husband when he called on the night of May 20. She told him they could sell their motorcycle or borrow money from the sugar factory in western Maharashtra where they both worked. His recovery was all that mattered to her, she said. But Ramling was perhaps unsure of recovering the money.

Every year, Ramling and Rajubai used to migrate from their hamlet in Beed district's Kaij taluka to work in the sugarcane fields of western Maharashtra. They earned about Rs. 60,000 together for 180 days of arduous labour from November to April. In their absence, their three children – of ages 8 to 16 years – would be left in the care of Ramling’s widowed father.

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RuralIndiaOnline.org, 23 June, 2021, https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/we-exhausted-our-savings-to-pay-the-hospital/


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