Death of a Doctor… And His Family!
Dr. Pradip Bhattacharya’s death sparkled public outrage. He was a selfless doctor from Shyamnagar, Kolkata, dedicated his life to serving others, especially during the Covid-19 crisis. Tragically, when he contracted Covid-19, the hospital billed him an exorbitant Rs 18 lakh.
He died.
Fighting at the forefront of Covid crisis. The frontiers on which Modi misused the IAF planes to shower flowers.
He did not get a petal of one of those flowers because he was in the backyards of Calcutta, in Shyamnagar, roughly 30 kilometres from Calcutta.
He died of Covid 19, and a doctor who had saved so many lives was billed Rs 18 lakh (1,600,000) by Medica Hospital in Salt Lake.
Shyamnagar. Let us celebrate this land
Dr. Pradip Bhattacharya.
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I ask myself, can a hospital be such a peeshachh to even charge a doctor this extortionist amount?
Pradip Bhattacharya. Leaving behind a daughter 13.
Just a year more than my daughter.
There have been many stories of Covid Fighters losing their lives. This is my personal story of knowing a doctor who followed the Hippocrates’ Oath to the end.
Call him and he would be there, even late at nights, when no one else would. No one else would even pick up their phones!
On call, all the time.
Just 45 or so. May be a year older or few to me.
Pradip Bhattacharya.
People in Shyamnagar are marching from house to house to collect donations for paying of the extortionist billing of Medica.
They have collected Rs 4 lakh so far.
A poor rickshaw puller pulled out all he had from his pocket: a ‘princely’ sum of Rs 70, as his contribution for the payment of the doctor’s hospital extortion: “This all I have, since I do not have passengers in the lockdown, and it is for him, since he saved my life once without charging any fee”
And the richest of the rich are putting their feet on the necks of the demised doctor’s family, washing out the doctor’s entire life’s savings, so not just the doctor but his entire family.
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