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There is no proposal to increase user charges in AIIMS for any patient care diagnostics and therapeutic services to OPD or general patient in the hospital.
This information was given in written reply by the Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, in the Lok Sabha on Friday.
All diagnostics procedures such as endoscopy, biopsy, CT scan and other tests are done free of cost for Below Poverty Line patients in All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Shillong, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Smt. S.K. Hospital, New Delhi, Safdarjang Hospital, New Delhi, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore and Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry, he added.
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