Coimbatore: In the early hours of May 13, 52-year-old Subramani, who was admitted to a private hospital at Sundarapuram on Pollachi Main Road with Covid-19, breathed his last into a ventilator. The hospital gave the family a bill for Rs 4 lakh to be paid before his body could be released. He was hospitalized for eight days, of which two and half days were spent in the intensive care unit (ICU). The family had no option but to use the Rs 3 lakh that Subramani had saved for his daughter’s marriage to settle the bill. The family now hopes to get an insurance reimbursement.
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It will start in one of the locations in Chennai, says Ma. Subramanian
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It will start in one of the locations in Chennai, says Ma. Subramanian The vaccination programme for people aged between 18 and 45 in Tamil Nadu will start in two or three days, said Minister for Medical and Family Welfare Ma. Subramanian in Coimbatore on Saturday.
The Minister said that the State had already paid ₹46 crore for 15 lakh doses of vaccines, Covishield and Covaxin, of which five lakh doses have arrived.
“The drive to vaccinate people in the18-45 age group will soon start in one of the locations in Chennai in two to three days,” said the Minister after holding a review meeting in Coimbatore along with Food Minister R. Sakkarapani and Forests Minister K. Ramachandran.