Cash cards to lessen AIIMS payment pain
New Delhi: AIIMS is going the smart way. Patients will no longer have to go through the rigmarole of paying bills separately but can instead pay for all the services — registration charges, diagnostics facilities, bed charges, cost for medical implants and surgical consumables — through a smart card or cash card to be issued at the time of admission. You can recharge the card for a certain amount, and can top it up according to requirement. The extra cash will be returned at the time of discharge.
According to top officials, the expression of interest has been advertised for implementation of the multi-crore project.
“The smart card system will be first introduced at the Cardio-Neuro Centre as a pilot project since they already have a package system. The same facilities will then be extended to all the departments and OPD,” said Vineet Chawdhry, deputy director (administration), AIIMS.