SC to govt: Can Covid treatment cost at pvt hospitals be capped?

SC to govt: Can Covid treatment cost at pvt hospitals be capped? Petitioner Avishek Goenka’s counsel argued before a bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, M R Shah and V Ramasubramanian that private hospitals were charging exorbitantly to treat Covid-19 patients, almost 10 times of what government hospitals were billing and pleaded that the pandemic situation should not be exploited to fleece patients. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J