West Bengal Medical Council — high bill charges

Address:

Kolkata, West Bengal

Dear council,

My wife had cyst at back which is only 1 mm. She went to cmri opd first to get it treated. There dr debashis mukherjee from general surgery treated her with some medicines and asked to come after 7 days for operation. Next time this doctor whom we worship as god are no more better than criminal told that with all lot of jargons about his implications and can turn to tumour in any part of body and now asked to operate it soon as swelling has subsided. With this he came up with many medical tests to be performed before operation and then asked his assistant to give estimation which was almost 50000/- with a night stay at hospital for simple cyst to be operated. When i told them that you are simply robbing people then he came with alternative that if we go for day care then charges will be reduced by 15000/- as in that case it will be difficult to get reimbursement from medical insurance.
I wonder how this kind of butchers and most importantly this private hospitals are allowed to present bill estimation with no standard way of practice as in other reputed hospital this case is getting done with one third of earlier quoted price. Few months back there was an agitation with wrong billings and overpriced billings and govt of west bengal vowed to check this menace.
But sorry to found that this practice is still going unabated and no one is bother to check that and more importantly this kind of doctors like dr debashish should be penalised by overcharging patients and making undue profits in wrap pf private hospital and which are also helping and making their profits.