-The Times of India NEW DELHI: With cases of denial of Hospital facilities being reported, UIDAI has reiterated that the Aadhaar Act clearly states that benefits cannot be denied due to absence of an Aaadhar number or failure of biometrics due to reasons such as old age or poor connectivity. In a statement, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) asked government departments/ministries and state/UT governments to ensure that no essential service...
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No Aadhaar, Gurgaon Hospital turns away woman, she gives birth right outside -Sakshi Dayal
-The Indian Express The incident comes just days after a woman was refused treatment at a Community Health Centre (CHC) in Jaunpur district in UP, for not furnishing an Aadhar card or any other kind of identity proof. Gurgaon (Haryana): Denied admission for not furnishing an Aadhaar card, a woman gave birth just outside the doors of Gurgaon’s Civil Hospital Friday as a crowd looked on. Forced to leave the premises, the...
More »MP's largest govt maternity Hospital denies discharge for newborns without 'Aadhaar' -Jamal Ayub
-The Times of India BHOPAL (M.P.): Without an Aadhaar registration, new-borns in Bhopal's Sultania Hospital are being refused discharge. In no uncertain terms, a dictate by Hospital administration, instructs Hospital staff, ward in-charge and security guards, not to allow new-borns to leave Hospital premises unless registration unique ID is produced. The need for 12-digit unique Aadhaar number for babies born is pasted across the largest maternity Hospital in Madhya Pradesh. "These instructions...
More »Primary Mistake -Soham D Bhaduri
-The Indian Express Budget’s bias toward privately-delivered care undermines universal health coverage Until about four decades ago, specialist healthcare (secondary and tertiary care) was largely a province of public Hospitals, and the private sector largely kept itself to the provision of generalist healthcare. This underwent a transformation with the rise of the advanced medical interventions comprising tertiary-care medicine like organ transplantation and open heart surgery. Given these highly-profitable medical advances, the private...
More »Consumables now costlier than stents in angioplasty -Rema Nagarajan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Even as stent prices have been capped, the cost of the three main consumables used in angioplasty have, in many cases, become even more expensive than stents as Hospitals try to make up for the huge margins they lost on stents. The modus operandi is same as in the case of stents before the price cap. Though the consumables are bought at a third or less...
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