On September 14, Jitendra Pal Singh, 32, a kidney patient in Delhi’s Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, was allegedly told to sign an undertaking by the hospital authorities.
Singh has chronic kidney failure and has received treatment at ILBS for nine years. For the last six months, his haemodialysis treatment has been provided free of cost under the EWS category, referring to the economically weaker section. As per a Supreme Court judgement of 2011, 25 percent of outpatients and 10 percent of inpatients must be given treatment free of cost. ILBS’s guidelines for the same can be viewed here.
