Panaji (Goa) 

As many as 20 private hospitals, empanelled under the State government’s flasgship Deen Dayal Sawasthya Seva Yojana (DDSSY), have warned not to be part of the amended scheme, which speaks about imposing penalty on the hospitals that violates rules apart from de-empanelment.

Hospitals like Victor Hospital, Grace Cardiac Hospital, Nagarsenkars classic hospital, Lawande Hospital and Research Centre, Manipal Hospital, Mardolkar General Hospital, Healthway, Chodankar Nursing Home are amongst those 20 hospitals who have objected to the amended scheme.

The hospital representatives recently held meeting on the issue and were unanimous in their objection and have submitted the same to the Health Minister Vishwajit Rane.

The hospitals are demanding minimum ten percent price hike in all three categories- A, B and C category hospitals, on the existing rates of the 2016-17 scheme and also withdrawing the penalizing clause.