Hyderabad: Private hospitals that have come on board to join the Covid-19 vaccination drive can, if they choose to, may not collect the Rs 100 service fee that they have been allowed by the Centre, TS Director of Health Services Dr G. Srinivasa Rao has said.
The government is delivering the vaccine free to people at its hospitals and identified Covid vaccination centres (CVCs). The cost at private hospitals has been determined as Rs 250, of which Rs 150 is for the vaccine and Rs 100 is towards service fee, as per Government of India orders.
“If private hospitals wish to, they may waive the service fee fully to complement the state government’s efforts to vaccinate everyone. Or they may choose to collect only a partial amount instead of `100. It is their call. But they cannot charge more than `100 as service fee and not more than `250 in all for each vaccine shot,” Dr Srinivasa Rao said.
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