'Exorbitant' coronavirus treatment prices slashed as state govts step up

While treatment in the private sector and in ICU can run into lakhs of rupees, the Indian public sector offers treatment largely for free, absorbing all these costs

After scores of media reports across languages and court petitions pointing out the high prices of COVID-19 treatment in India, at least 10 state governments have stepped in to cap these rates. Maharashtra was one of the first states to do this in May 2020. The process is still under way as other states are exploring ways to cap the prices of healthcare during the pandemic.

Various aspects of the pandemic’s impact on healthcare have been explored in IndiaSpend’s ‘The Price of COVID’ series. Several issues highlighted in the series have now been somewhat