Hospital Treats Dead Baby In Hyderabad, Charges Medical Bill Of Rs 1.2 L

In an incident resembling the Telugu film Tagore, a private hospital in Hyderabad treated a dead baby and collected Rs 1.2 lakh medical bills from a family.

The couple, Paramesh and Pavani, a native of Deccan Thanda, have staged a protest against the hospital on finding the doctors and other staff demanding money for treating their 25-day-old baby.

The doctors assured them of treating their baby for the charge of 30,000 per day when the couple brought their baby in the hospital after she had to fall sick. However, even after filling their pockets with Rs. 1.2L, they demanded more money and even restricted them from seeing the baby. However, when the family managed to see the baby, they found her already dead.

Meanwhile, the police are looking into the matter and checking if an FIR is to be filed against the hospital. According to the law, the draft Patient Charter states that it is the duty of the hospital to not wrongfully confine any patient, or dead body of a patient, treated in the hospital under any circumstance.