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The increases are likely to further lockout poor households from accessing the top quality health services that the private hospitals offer, even as public hospitals & governments struggle to prioritize the quality of treatment against corona pandemic constraints.
The medical practitioners attribute the cost to the increasing demand & cost of Medical supplies including PPE’s, drugs against a decreasing number of clients due to the lockdown and the complex nature of safety medical procedures, which have become more costly.

The story seeks to explore factors that have led to a sharp rise in the cost of healthcare, find out the current average cost of outpatient consultation charges, what it means to patients, and the way forward.