Delhi Government should challenge High Court order in Supreme Court regarding free medical facilities and medicines in Delhi government hospitals with provision of charging cost of medicines to be reimbursed in Aadhar-linked bank-accounts.
Delhi Government should challenge High Court order to provide free medical treatments, facilities and medicines in OPDs of hospitals run by Delhi government with hard-earned money of tax-payers of Delhi to non-Delhi patients that too at a time when even hospitals run by central government in Delhi like prestigious AIIMS, RML etc do not offer free medicines and costly investigations like MRI. However non-Delhi residents must have right to avail emergency-treatments because medical emergencies can occur any time during visit to Delhi.
People from outside Delhi come specially to avail such free facilities in OPDs of hospitals under Delhi government. Extra-ordinary rush of non-Delhi residents at OPDs of hospitals under Delhi government deprive Delhi residents from unique facility of free medicines and costly investigations with majority of patients in OPDs from outside Delhi. Aadhar-cards with Delhi address should be compulsory for patients coming to OPDs of hospitals under Delhi government.
Since people do not care costly freebies like free medicines, provision should be to charge cost of generic medicines to be reimbursed back in bank-accounts linked with Delhi Aadhar-cards in a manner subsidy-part of LPG is first charged at time of LPG delivery, and later reimbursed back in Aadhar-linked bank-accounts.
Delhi government should rent out through tendering medicine-shops of branded medicines in hospital-premises where branded medicines may be available at 20-25 percent discount like is in wholesale medicine-market of Bhagirath Palace which has virtually turned in retail-market with even single strips of branded medicines openly available at each shop at 20-25 percent discount.
MADHU AGRAWAL