<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Abhay Shukla</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:abhayshukla1@gmail.com">abhayshukla1@gmail.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000">_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Patients' voices during the Pandemic:</span></b><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></p>

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overcharging by private hospitals</span></b><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></p>

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On behalf of SATHI, India we are pleased to share the compendium on <b><i>‘Patients'
voices during the Pandemic: Stories and analysis of rights violations and
overcharging by private hospitals’</i></b>, which might be of interest to
many of us. </span></p>

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The collection of 23 testimonies in this compendium illustrates patients’
traumatic experiences seeking treatment in private hospitals during the first
wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Maharashtra, India. These powerful
testimonies highlight the multitude of challenges patients encountered, and
their vulnerability and helplessness when faced with the need to use services
of private hospitals during the pandemic. It exposes the ruthless character of
privatisation in health care which puts profit before life-saving with rampant
overcharging, and highlights the serious consequences of failure to regulate
the private sector during the crisis. It also initiates a discussion of
possible ways to regulate and socialise the private healthcare sector in India.</span></p>

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Bhalerao, Dr Kanchan Pawar, Dr Dhananjay Kakade and Dr Abhay Shukla who are associated
with SATHI Pune, which is an active member of PHM-India.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
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