Not of this hospital but of a visiting doctor. Dr. Meenakshi Kamath met by aged senior citizens at cloudnine hospital.
This is shocking and against even basic human value system.
Please read fully.
A senior citizen aged 75+ diagnosed with procidentia, had come to Cloudnine Hospital, Jayanagar, along with the vaginal pessary. She came purely for this purpose alone. That pessary itself costs less than ₹500/-.
She was asked to pay initial amount & She paid 1. ₹150/- for registration 2. ₹850/- consultation fee to Dr. Meenakshi Kamath
Over and above this ₹1000/-, she was asked to pay ₹2500/- for a simple pessary insertion.
In all hospitals, inserting the vaginal pessary, that too, for a 75+ year old senior citizen, is covered within the consultation fee since it is a simple medical procedure.
During consultation, it appears that Dr. Meenakshi Kamath was heavily pressurizing to undergo hysterectomy, the surgical procedure.
Being a chronic diabetic & other ailments, having already seen the serious side-effects of hysterectomy in others, she firmly said NO to Dr. Meenakshi Kamath.
Later, the hospital executive went in and met Dr. Meenakshi Kamath and she wrote ₹2500 for the pessary insertion.
In all hospitals, the charge, even when separately charged and not made part of consultation, for pessary insertion, is ₹500 to ₹1000 max.
But here, consultation which was purely for pessary insertion, was already charged.
In addition, was this ₹2500/-
Totally, for a simple pessary insertion, ₹3500/- was taken from an aged senior citizen.
This is unethical.
Please do not take senior citizen's money from them, like this. It is a huge sin.
You/Doctor must inform patients the cost, before doing the procedure.
After doing the procedure, charging exorbitantly is unfair trade practise, even as per consumer protection act/law.
Please refund that ₹2500 to her.
**PLEASE DISCONTINUE SERVICES OF Dr. MEENAKSHI KAMATH Immediately.
She seems to be GREEDY & UNETHICAL and also ARROGANT, without consideration for even the age and seniority of patients.
We visited Dr. Satvik for the treatment of my mother’s knee pain. He was very kind, patient and understanding. He examined her thoroughly and took time to explain what was causing the issue. He din’t ask us for an unnecessary MRI, and my mother now does not have any pain and is walking about freely.
