How health insurance saved them from financial ruin
MAD magazine, will resonate with anyone who has ever used a health insurance policy during a medical emergency. Mumbai-based Hitesh Gajaria is a case in point.
Gajaria was diagnosed with a serious ailment in July, which required him to be hospitalized suddenly. After a week’s observation, he was advised to undergo an emergency surgery. “I was not aware of this condition until I got hospitalized.
I was leading a normal life and then, all of a sudden, I was pushed out of action for almost four months. Soon after the diagnosis, I had to do a lot of running around—first trying to find a good surgeon and then a bed in a bigger hospital.
For almost one-and-a-half days, I could not get a bed in the desired hospital even in a city like Mumbai," Gajaria recounts, adding that the diagnosis came as a shock.
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