Ranchi, Rajeev Pandey: RIMS is a base for such ambulance drivers from where patients are shifted to private hospitals. An ambulance driver gets Rs 12,000 to Rs 20,000 for taking a patient to a private hospital. This was revealed in the sting of ‘BollywoodWallah’. The ambulance driver has even revealed the names of private hospitals in the city, but we are not publishing them. The ambulance drivers standing in a queue outside the RIMS Central Emergency and Cardiology wing openly act as agents of the private hospital. Money for shifting patients is demanded indiscriminately. The broker says that the rate of every hospital is fixed. For transporting a patient, some hospitals pay Rs 12,000, while others pay Rs 15,000. Surgery patients taken to hospital get up to Rs 20,000. Referring to a new hospital, when the ambulance driver was talked to, he told that the hospitals near RIMS pay up to Rs 15,000, then there is no question of reducing the rate. While explaining the calculation of earning from the patient, the ambulance driver said that the expenses of one patient are more than Rs 10,000 in a day. If the patient stays in the hospital for 10 days, then the hospital earns one lakh rupees just like that. Medicines and other expenses are separate in this. In such a situation, where is Rs 15,000 too much to send to the patient?
There is a fight to stay outside RIMS Central Emergency
There is even fighting among the drivers to park the ambulance in front or near RIMS Central Emergency. Ambulance drivers admitted that when patients are found, they keep the ambulance outside the Central Emergency. At the same time, every attempt by RIMS to remove ambulances outside the Central Emergency and Cardiology wing has failed. Within minutes of removal there is a gathering of ambulances there. Ambulance drivers take patients to the same hospital where they get paid more. Ambulance drivers bargain with private hospitals after loading the patients. If the patient gives the name of a hospital he knows, the ambulance drivers confuse him and shift him to the hospital of their choice.
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Ambulance drivers stand outside RIMS as agents of private and corporate hospitals.
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Patients are sent to those who give more.
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Rates of every hospital are fixed, brokers bargain hard to shift patients
A doctor admitted that ambulance drivers bargain
Capital Ranchi The doctor of a private clinic admitted that the arbitrariness of ambulance drivers has increased a lot. An ambulance driver took a patient from a hospital in Dhanbad. He called me saying that he is bringing it to your hospital, how much money will you pay? Other hospitals are giving up to Rs 15,000. If you give more, we will bring it to your hospital. When he told the driver in a stern tone that this does not happen in his hospital, he took him to another hospital.
Ambulance driver exposed during phone conversation
How much will it take to take the patient to the hospital?
Will be charged according to the old rate fixed by the hospitals of the capital. They charge Rs 15,000 to take a patient to the hospital. It will not be less than this.
It is a small hospital, won’t it cost a little less?
See, the hospital bill falls between Rs 10,000 to Rs 12,000 per day. According to that, how much are you giving us, please add it up and tell us? If you keep the patient for 10 days, how much will you get? If you have separate expenses, please reduce the driver’s money. You are giving very little from your house. Taking only this much from the beginning.
How much are other hospitals in the city giving?
The hospital nearest to here is giving Rs 15,000. Rest of the hospitals are also giving Rs 12,000. If we take a neuro patient, we get Rs 15,000 to 20,000 without saying anything. If you tell us less, it will not be possible. Give me your card or number. Will call.
How will you take the money, daily or in lump sum?
Will take money in cash. Daily calculations will have to be made in cash on the same day. Even if we took patients outside Ranchi and brought back patients from there, it would not be less. It will cost only Rs 15,000. If the patient party calls you in the hospital, you can give 10-5 or even two, that will be fine.
How will the patient be brought from RIMS to the hospital?
Rims, brother, there is a lot of fighting right now. You are looking to give Rs 12,000 and the next one is giving Rs 15,000 then where will it come from? The patient will not be taken to the one who gives Rs 15,000. One month’s car installment is being paid only once. The man who is buying the car by investing six to seven lakh rupees, will do this, right? You will pay attention to the rims, that is why the vehicle is placed in front of the emergency.