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The blog post is posted at https://strictlylegal.in/can-hospitals-hold-patients-hostage-over-unpaid-bills/ Healthcare institutions/ hospitals often hold patients "Hostage" long after they should be medically discharged, using armed guards, locked doors, and even chains to extract money for unpaid bills. Even death does not guarantee release because even morgues hold dead bodies for unpaid hospital bills. Despite the rights enshrined in the Constitution of India, it is not uncommon in the hospitals to be detaining a person on account of unpaid bills or holding a dead body of a deceased. A balance needs to be achieved between patients, who are unable to pay the bill or who have been exorbitantly charged by the hospital, and also the problem faced by the hospitals who receive threats from the patients and even go to the extent of vandalizing the hospital and assaulting the doctors working therein. In its present form, the draft Charter aims to provide protection against hospital malpractices by granting certain rights to the patients particularly the Right to be discharged - "A patient has the right to be discharged and cannot be detained in a hospital, on procedural grounds such as [a] dispute in payment of hospital charges. Similarly, caretakers have the right to the dead body of a patient who had been treated in a hospital, and the dead body cannot be detailed on procedural grounds, including non-payment/dispute regarding payment of hospital charges against wishes of the caretakers". There is an imminent need for comprehensive legislation that directly deals with the issue of malpractices adopted by hospitals and at the same time strikes a balance between the rights of doctors and hospitals by devising a mechanism for recovery of their legal dues. Until proper legislation comes into force, the Courts in India should step up to the occasion and lay down proper guidelines to be followed by the Hospitals in dealing with patients and in order to reduce the plight of the suffering patients and their family members.
This episode gives you a brief overview of the Indian Constitution. In this podcast we discuss the constituent assembly, history of the constitution, preamble and a few other lesser known facts of the Constitution of India. The text version of this podcast is available on the strictlylegal.in blog.
Hi, I'm Pritam Banikk and over the coming few weeks I'm going to discuss some Strictlylegal topics right from the contemporary world of law to the deep down old historic common law. Stay tuned with me while I take you on a wild wild ride into the world of law. Powered by Strictlylegal.in
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