Could you talk about the reasons for setting up Charity Beds? We have been running Charity Beds for eight to nine years now, when the Supreme Court had ruled that every private hospital, which got land at concessional prices, should give free medical care (including cost of medicines) to the economically weaker sections of society.
But this directive was interpreted by private hospitals in very different ways. As a result, say, how would a driver, who was already distressed because someone in his family had a brain haemorrhage, negotiate with a hospital about what was to be included in the bill and what was not.
So, we became a fulcrum between private hospitals and vulnerable communities.What was the trigger that led to Charity Beds.