Public decries increase in lab test fee

The primary and secondary healthcare department increase charges of up to 43 laboratory

JHELUM: The public is crying foul as the Punjab health department has increased the lab-test fee in public hospitals by 200 percent. According to a notification issued, the primary and secondary healthcare department has increased charges of up to 43 laboratory-tests by 200 percent. The public have expressed displeasure over the decision and declared it an anti-poor policy. Many said that people were already being kneaded from inflation and now, to add to it, the government had taken away a cheap treatment facility from them.  They said that the prime minister made false promises before election and now he was dropping inflation bombs on the public.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 24^th, 2019.