Aurangabad collector had received several complaints alleging that the hospital was charging exorbitant fees from farmers and poor people, an official said
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Aurangabad Collector Sunil Chavan has cancelled the permission given to a hospital to serve as a Covid-19 facility after complaints of overcharging patients, an official said on Wednesday.
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Following the collector's directive, the Mamta Memorial Hospital, located at Bajaj Nagar in Waluj area here in Maharashtra, has been asked not to admit any new Covid-19 patient and discharge those already admitted after their treatment is completed, he said.
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The collector had received several complaints alleging that the hospital was charging exorbitant fees from farmers and poor people, the official said. Chavan made a committee to look into the complaints and based on its report, he cancelled the permission granted to the hospital to treat Covid-19 patients, the official said.
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