PEOPLE DISSATISFACTION IS INCREASING AGAINST JP HOSPITAL IN ROURKELA; CONGRESS STAGED AGITATION

Rajesh Mohapatra,Odishabarta

ROURKELA: Jaiprakash Hospital in Rourkela is a new hospital was inaugurated in December month of 2019 and since then it has been operational. Infrastructure wise it matched with big hospitals in Odisha but the pathos is, treatment here is very expensive as complained by patients and relatives of patients. Now Govt. has also signed an MOU with this hospital for Covid treatment.  Today District Congress Committee under the leadership of former MLA, Birmitrapur and now the leader of Congress, George Tirkey with his party workers have initiated a demonstration against the hospital for charging very high from poor people. They also have given a memorandum addressing to Mr.Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra, Addl.Chief Secretary, Govt. Of Odisha through Sub-Collector, Panposh regarding their discontent towards high cost they charged from patients and to take proper action towards this problem.

All demonstrators have complained that whosoever visiting this hospital is asked to take treatment from this hospital only and once they are admitted to this hospital, they handover high cost bills at the time of discharge. They also complained that ICU charges what JP Hospital charging is the highest in the state. Since this district is a tribal dominated district and most of the people are from poor background, must be given due medical treatments with a reasonable rate. They also asked the Govt. to make it public how much amount been sanctioned to this hospital towards treatment of Covid-19 patients and other statistics related to this. Even few demonstrators alarmed,  if no action is being taken, then a massive demonstration would be organized in coming time.