Parul Bhasin Verma, currently living at Atlanta in the USA, created a furour with her post accusing Yashoda Hospital at Secunderabad in Telangana and BL Kapoor Hospital in Delhi
A Delhi woman has accused two private hospitals, one in the National Capital, of medical kidnapping and overcharging, on social media. The woman's Facebook post, published late last week, went viral and encouraged several people to share their bad experiences with the private hospitals across the country.
Parul Bhasin Verma, currently living at Atlanta in the USA, created a furour with her post accusing Yashoda Hospital at Secunderabad in Telangana and BL Kapoor Hospital in Delhi, for keeping her mother in the ICU for over 100 days costing the family more than Rs 1.2 crore. Verma's mother, a liver cirrhosis patient, succumbed to multiple organ failure in May.
"I have no other option now but go public with this information so that an appropriate action can be taken against these so-called hospitals, established to help the ailing members of our society, and no other family goes through the horror that we have experienced for over four months," said Verma in her post, giving day-to-day details on the family's ordeal.
Verma's post shared the details starting from January 2, 2018, when her mother was first diagnosed with the illness. Ten days later, the family received a call from a woman named Jyotsna Verma, giving details of an available liver in Hyderabad. The woman charged Rs 1 lakh for the information and the liver cost the family Rs 23 lakh, while the treatment cost at both hospitals was Rs 1 lakh per day.
After 20 days, the woman underwent a successful liver transplant. However, three days later on February 8, she was put on a ventilator due to lung infection and remained on it for around 30 days.
"I am really glad to see how all of you are supporting me. During these past 24 hours, I have received messages and comments from numerous individuals sharing their stories about how their families were tortured by this huge-money making "Health shops" and went through similar horror. It is very disheartening to see that such a noble and respectable profession has been corrupted by greed. If this has happened to many of us, then I think that there is a need for change. I request you to please come forward and share your story under the hashtag (#medicalkidnapping) so that the authorities can no longer ignore the issue. We may be weak individually but together we are stronger, (sic)" wrote Verma in another post.
Denying all the accusations, BL Kapoor Hospital said that the woman was too ill to be saved.
"It is unfortunate that in situations of bereavement facts gets obscured by voices of public empathy. Mrs. Sarita Bhasin was admitted to the ICU on April 7, 2018, for a period of 30 days. Her total in-patient bill for this was Rs 15.79 lakh. The patient's family has only paid Rs 1.99 lakh and they also brought medicines from outside," said a statement issued by the hospital.
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