{"id":51392,"date":"2019-04-15T14:19:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T09:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=51392"},"modified":"2019-04-15T14:19:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T09:19:58","slug":"kmc-plans-to-revise-service-charges-in-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kmc-plans-to-revise-service-charges-in-hospitals.html","title":{"rendered":"KMC plans to revise service charges in hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) has decided to introduce new service charges in all KMC-run hospitals in a bid to generate more revenue, a news source reported.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kmc-to-launch-6-new-projects-in-karachi-with-federal-help.html\">KMC to launch 6 new projects in Karachi with federal help<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A seven-member committee recently presented a set of recommendations to this effect to Karachi Mayor Wasim Akhtar for approval. Previously, the Medical and Health Services Department (M&amp;HSD) of KMC had constituted the committee to help address the financial crisis being faced by the corporation.<\/p>\n<p>It reviewed the rates of services provided by KMC hospitals, and also compared rate lists with other public and private hospitals. In its proposals submitted to the City Council, the members proposed a 50-100% increase in service charges in all KMC-run health facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The committee has suggested revisions to the rates list for availing health facilities such as out-patient department (OPD), surgery, laboratory tests, and private rooms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kmc-starts-listing-commercialised-residential-properties.html\">KMC starts listing commercialised residential properties<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The health institutes where KMC hopes to implement the new charges include Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases, Sobhraj Maternity Hospital, Spencer Eye Hospital, and Rafiqui Shaheed Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) has decided to introduce new service charges in all KMC-run hospitals in a bid to generate more revenue, a news source reported. Read: KMC to launch 6 new projects in Karachi with federal help A seven-member committee recently presented a set of recommendations to this effect to Karachi Mayor Wasim Akhtar for approval. Previously, the Medical and Health Services Department (M&amp;HSD) of KMC had constituted the committee to help address the financial crisis being faced by the corporation. It reviewed the rates of services provided by KMC hospitals, and also compared rate lists with other public and private hospitals. In its proposals submitted to the City Council, the members proposed a 50-100% increase in service charges in all KMC-run health facilities. The committee has suggested revisions to the rates list for availing health facilities such as out-patient department (OPD), surgery, laboratory tests, and private rooms. Read: KMC starts listing commercialised residential properties The health institutes where KMC hopes to implement the new charges include Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases, Sobhraj Maternity Hospital, Spencer Eye Hospital, and Rafiqui Shaheed Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":39649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11326],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-kmc-plans-to-revise-service-charges-in-hospitals"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>KMC plans to revise service charges in hospitals - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Karachi: The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) has decided to introduce new service charges in all KMC-run hospitals in a bid to generate more\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kmc-plans-to-revise-service-charges-in-hospitals.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"KMC plans to revise service charges in hospitals - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Karachi: The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) has decided to introduce new service charges in all KMC-run hospitals in a bid to generate more\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kmc-plans-to-revise-service-charges-in-hospitals.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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