Plea In SC Seeks Direction To Centre To Ensure Refund Of Exorbitant Amounts Charged By Pvt. Labs, Hospitals For RT-PCR Tests
The Supreme Court on Saturday has been moved in a plea for direction to the Centre to ensure refund of "exorbitant" amounts charged by private labs and hospitals for conducting RT-PCR tests to detect COVID-19.The interim application has been filed by lawyer and BJP leader Ajay Agrawal in his pending PIL in which he had sought fixing of uniform rate of Rs 400 across India, as done by Odisha,...
The Supreme Court on Saturday has been moved in a plea for direction to the Centre to ensure refund of "exorbitant" amounts charged by private labs and hospitals for conducting RT-PCR tests to detect COVID-19.
The applicant urges that the people of the country are shocked and feeling befooled and cheated, not only by these Private labs and Hospitals, but by the political executives and officials of this country who are either totally insensitive towards the 135 crores population, by not inquiring or investigating that why this test is so expensively charged and how much the actual expenses incurred on this test are, or have done it deliberately in connivance with the Private labs and Hospitals.
The Applicant prays for order for fixing a uniform maximum rate of Rs. 400/- for the RT-PCR test across India on the principle of parity and one nation-one rate policy, and responsibility be fixed of the concerned officials or persons in all the States, NCT of Delhi and UTs for remaining insensitive, deliberately or negligently, to the cause of 135 crores people of this Country.
Further, an order is sought for the earliest refund of the additional amount charged to the extent of around Rs. 3000/- when this test was charged @Rs. 4500/- across India, while the total cost of the test including its kit comes to somewhere between Rs. 800/- and 1200/- and afterwards when it was charged by Meghalaya @Rs.3200/- Andhra Pradesh 2800/-, Delhi @Rs.2400/- and so on, the entire amount charged over and above Rs. 400/- be refunded.
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