HIMCARE: In PGI Chandigarh, Patients Are Not Getting Free Cashless Treatment Under Himcare Scheme, Facing Out of Pocket Expenses.

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In the Post Graduate Medical Education and Research Institute (PGI), Chandigarh, all the attendants have to first get an estimate for the treatment, for this also all the patients have to suffer in PGI Chandigarh. Diary Times correspondent Kumud Sharma said that patients have been facing this type of problem continuously for the last six months.

All the families and patients admitted to the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Center (PGI) Chandigarh located in the city of Chandigarh are not getting the benefit of cashless treatment facilities through Himcare Card.

The situation at PGI Center Chandigarh is so bad that the relatives of all the patients have to spend money from their own pockets to get the treatment facilities.

In PGI Center Chandigarh, all the patients have to pay thousands of rupees for treatment, from operation theater facilities to medicines.

At PGI Center Chandigarh, patients are able to get the benefit of treatment facilities only after paying huge amount of thousands of rupees at the counters for operation theater and medicines. In view of this, all the families and patients coming from outside states are facing a lot of problems.

Not all patients are able to get the benefit of Himcare Yojana card even on the occasion of emergency in PGI Center Chandigarh. At the Himcare Scheme Card Office of PGI Center Chandigarh, all attendants are being asked through advice to first get the treatment done, and only then to deposit all the bills.

Many times in PGI Center Chandigarh, all the attendants have to take estimate facilities to avail the treatment facilities first, for this also all the patients have to constantly push at the counters.

All the patients in PGI Center Chandigarh are facing such problems continuously for the last six months. For the last six months, all the patients in PGI Center Chandigarh started getting the benefits of Himcare Scheme Card immediately.

The most important thing is that for the treatment of Rs 5 lakh through Himcare Yojana card, one had to spend out of pocket money, but these days all the Himcare Yojana card holders are not able to directly get the benefit of this scheme.

After being discharged, all the patients have to face constant pressure at PGI Center Chandigarh to deposit the bills in the Himcare Scheme Card Office to get back the maintenance expenses.

It is noteworthy that all the serious patients from all the outside states including Himachal Pradesh are referred to PGI Center Chandigarh.

All the patients are facing a lot of problems in getting the treatment of all serious diseases through Himcare Yojana card for the last six months continuously.

PGI Center Chandigarh is proving unsuccessful in finding a permanent solution to all these facilities through the Himcare Scheme card.

PGI Center Chandigarh employees are misleading patients –

The attendants have been caught misleading the attendants several times continuously by all the staff present in the Himcare Scheme office at PGI Center Chandigarh and are still being misled, due to which the attendants are facing continuous problems.

All the staff posted at PGI Center Chandigarh are not providing correct information to the attendants accompanying the patients.

At PGI Center Chandigarh, the attendants are being made to wander for hours and make rounds of the departments to get a signature, due to which the attendants are also facing defeat in withdrawing the money from the Himcare Scheme card of the patients.

Constant instructions are given to all the staff deployed at PGI Center Chandigarh and doctors are being asked to take first estimate of the treatment of patients and immediately send the bills systematically to Himcare Scheme Card Office PGI Center Chandigarh. Is. After treatment of all the patients, necessary guidelines have been issued to all the deployed staff for bills and assisting the patients.

Devendra Kumar, Co-ordinator, Himcare Scheme Card Office, PGI Center Chandigarh.

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Kumud Sharma

Kumud Sharma is the First Well-Known Female Journalist of the Journalism World of Himachal Pradesh. I am the Founder, Editor in Chief, Managing Director, Promoter of Diary Times. As a Female Journalist, With My Experience of More Than Nine Years, I Tell You Every News of Himachal Pradesh From The Ground Level With Absolutely Accurate and Correct Information, Be it the Politics of Himachal Pradesh or the Ground Reality, My Perspective On Every News Will Give You Assurance. I Assure You That Every News of Mine Will Comply With the Expertise and Fact Checking Policy.