SC seeks Centre’s response on PIL seeking to fix maximum rate for RT-PCR test
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“There is a big loot by laboratories and they are minting money to the tune of crores and crores of rupees.”
The Supreme Court Tuesday sought the Centre’s response on a PIL seeking path for fixing the maximum rate for the RT-PCR test for COVID-19 uniformly throughout India.
A bench comprising Chief Justice S.A. Bobde and Justices A.S. Bopanna and V. Ramasubramanian issued discover to the Health Ministry and listed the PIL filed by lawyer Ajay Agrawal for listening to after two weeks.
The bench, in a listening to carried out through video conferencing, stated that the plea can be heard with one other pending plea pertaining to the price of therapy for COVID-19.
It took notice of the submission of Mr. Agrawal that the plea wanted an pressing listening to.
The petition has sought a path to the governments to fix the maximum rate for the RT-PCR (real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain response) test to ₹ 400 uniformly throughout the nation, as an alternative of ₹ 900 to ₹ 2800 as fastened by completely different state governments, Union Territories and NCT of Delhi.
“There is a big loot by laboratories and they are minting money to the tune of crores and crores of rupees. The margin of profit is so high as it is as high as 1400% in Andhra Pradesh and 1200% in Delhi,” stated the petition filed by advocate Ajay Agrawal.
It claimed that the RT-PCR kits are presently out there for lower than rupees 200 within the Indian market.
There is not any different value because the machines used for the RT-PCR test are already there with the laboratories as they conduct a lot of assessments.
“And the matter is concerned with 135 crore citizen of the country as everybody worried about the coronavirus and forced to get their test done at this exorbitant price,” it stated.
It alleged that the house owners of the non-public laboratories and hospitals are utilizing the calamity into alternatives for minting crores and crores of rupees.
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