JSA, Working Group on Access to Medicines and Treatment demand ceiling on hospital charges, regulation on medicine price

While the Clinical Establishments Act, 2010 (CEA) provides a legal framework for regulating clinical establishments and envisages government-determined ranges of charges, it has not been implemented, they said.The Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA) and the Working Group on Access to Medicines and Treatment (Working Group) have called for urgent government intervention to regulate healthcare by private hospitals, warning that patients continue to face excessive and arbitrary charges for treatment, medicines and medical consumables with little effective protection or recourse.